As far as I can tell the life imprisonment is for people advocating genocide. It is not clear to me that this just allows any so-called hate crime to be punishe

As far as I can tell the life imprisonment is for people advocating genocide. It is not clear to me that this just allows any so-called hate crime to be punished with life in prison, which seems pretty authoritarian. But the thing is it's pretty difficult to understand just what exactly the changes being proposed are. From a cursory reading of the bill it is not obvious what exactly the implications are here. As far as how likely it is to pass, I would say not impossible. The liberals have an outsize influence on how the country is run and will until next year at least, unless Trudeau calls an early election (which by all accounts he would lose right now).