'The Online Harms Act is the most serious threat to free expression in Canada in generations... Bill C -63 would empower the Canadian Human Rights Commission to prosecute Canadians over non-criminal hate speech,' Justice Centre President John Carpay said in a video recorded before he delivered the petition.
Every attempt at speech laws is a means of criminalizing critics of government. There is no other reason to police speech. Our role in this system is to listen and to obey. To reply carries a risk of imprisonment.
'I trust that all women - irrespective of profile or financial means - will be treated equally under the law,' wrote JK Rowling in response to Scottish police saying her opposition to LGBT ideology won't be prosecuted.
'If this passes, God help us, because I don’t know where it will go,' former chair of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal David Thomas warned of Trudeau's 'Online Harms' bill.
After left-leaning author Margaret Atwood compared her country's proposed Online Harms Act to George Orwell's dystopian novel '1984,' Canadian justice minister and attorney general Arif Virani claimed she misunderstood the bill.
The Trudeau government's proposed 'Online Harms' bill, which seeks to expand the scope of government regulation of the internet through threats of fines and lengthy prison terms, continues to be blasted by prominent international voices.
Rowling defended her position that gender-confused TV personality ‘India’ Willoughby ‘did not become a woman,' adding 'India is cosplaying a misogynistic male fantasy of what a woman is.’
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Albertan Christian Bill Whatcott must be retried for 'Wilful Promotion of Hatred' for distributing flyers warning against homosexual acts during the June 2016 'Pride Parade' in Toronto.