Trudeau’s all-out war on free speech

‘CANADA, just like the USA, only nice’. What was once accurate is true no longer. Nice Canada is becoming increasingly intolerant, and it starts with the government. Justin Trudeau’s administration is trying to take cancel culture and turn it into federal law, empowering any social justice warrior with a grievance to take conservatives to court.

Last month the Liberal Trudeau government rammed Bill C-10 through the House of Commons. To achieve this it limited debate, overruled its own committee chair and used every procedural motion it could to get the Bill passed. The government is determined to push it through the Senate, the upper house in Canada’s parliament, after the summer recess and enact it as federal law.

Bill C-10 will effectively censor the internet, handing government bureaucrats and the politicians who direct them the power to regulate what everyday Canadians see online. The algorithms used by companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, Netflix and Disney could be replaced by government-approved versions. This would allow the government to push content it liked and hide content it found uncomfortable or threatening.

The Bill affects more than giant tech, it touches on private individuals. The Liberals removed an amendment which would have protected user-generated content. This means the government is grabbing the power to regulate what individuals post on their private Facebook pages or Twitter accounts.

Should any political party have the power to control what its citizens consume on the internet? That this aligns Canada with totalitarian states such as communist China indicates the direction in which ‘nice’ Canada is moving.

Read here

Please right-click links to open in a new window.