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You’re grossly misinformed. Advocating genocide is already a crime in Canada. This just makes it more explicit in an online context since the laws around this w
by mthoms 3y ago
You’re grossly misinformed. Advocating genocide is already a crime in Canada. This just makes it more explicit in an online context since the laws around this were created pre-internet.
And given that this is a law that has existed for literally decades, can you cite a single example of where it has been misused to stifle free-speech?
Name one.
(That’s not to say we shouldn’t be keeping a close eye on these things of course, but you’re yelling fire in a theatre where there isn’t even smoke. Give me a break)
- StanislavPetrov 3y agoCertainly the Trudeau regime has never abused its power to deprive Canadian citizens of their rights and freedoms, and would never use this new, draconian law to do it again. https://torontosun.com/news/national/ottawa-appeals-court-decision-finding-use-of-emergencies-act-was-unreasonable https://torontosun.com/news/national/ottawa-appeals-court-de...
- mthoms 3y agoNice pivot attempt. I asked for an example of existing laws against inciting genocide being used to stifle free speech. Because you made the claim it was inevitable... I pointed out that it's never happened even though those laws have existed for decades. So, do you have something to back up your claim or not? Or are you just regurgitating right-wing fear-mongering nonsense without any independent thought? As for the Ottawa protest; It's curious you invoked that protest and not any one of dozens of First Nations protests occupying various spaces over the past two decades. All of those people were also forcefully removed at gunpoint (See also: dozens of similar situations in the USA like Standing Rock). It's different when it's white people whose views align with your own I guess, eh?
- wasted_intel 3y agoExercising “rights and freedoms” isn’t what the people in that protest were doing. Breaking that up was the right thing to do.
- busymom0 3y agoFederal court disagrees with you. You just happen to not like what they were protesting.
- andremedeiros 3y agoI lived in Ottawa at the time these protests were going on. These people weren’t there to protest. They were there to antagonize.