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Not quite. What Canada already has (compelled speach laws) and is planning to do certainly is unique, except maybe a couple dictatorships if you criticize the
by pomdapi 5y ago
Not quite.
What Canada already has (compelled speach laws) and is planning to do certainly is unique, except maybe a couple dictatorships if you criticize the regime.
While the proposed text defines hatred as
"[...] the emotion that involves detestation or vilification and that is stronger than dislike or disdain",
the text also says :
"A person may, with the Attorney General’s consent, lay an information before a provincial court judge if the person fears on reasonable grounds that another person will commit [...]
(c) an offence motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other similar factor."
In essence, if somebody thinks they can prove you might in the fututre say something along any of the motives above, it's "terrorism" analogue, and the state can act unilaterally, without any judicial process.
I can only remember, being from ex-yugoslavia, which used to be a diverse ex-communist country, a similar set of "terrorizing of free speech" laws, right after WWII by Tito.
They had been deemed necessary to use fear of Communists to quell any desire for any kind of revenge for the massacres and exterminations in death camps from WWII, and suffocate any nationalism.
They were rescinded in the mid 1950's because of the harm they had caused back then. It was used to send 75K people in gulag, a lot innocent, just denounced by people who didn't like them. 54K never came back, 60K more were sent to regular prison for 1-5 years.
Also, seeing the 1990's, they quite obviously didn't work, people just kept their fear of the other and desire for revenge inside, not talking, slowly simmering to a boiling point.
Not saying Trudeau's opening polar work camps, but he certainly stepped on (over ?) the border of that territory.