Experts warn that Trudeau insists on approving "the most totalitarian bill in the West"
By Israel Duro | Published by Voz Media
Summary
Canada’s Online Harms Act (Bill C-63) continues to generate awe and alarm, extending beyond our borders in its capacity to unnerve as the world at large contemplates the introduction of a law that weaponizes online speech from the past prior to that speech qualifying as a crime, as well as potential life imprisonment for incitement to hatred and penalties for crimes that have not yet been committed under the guise of protecting children.
Voz Media contributor, Israel Duro, considers reactions to C-63 in the wake of a recent Jordan Peterson podcast examining the gravity of the Act’s potency on not only freedom of speech but the concept of freedom itself with guests Bruce Pardy of Rights Probe and Konstantin Kisin, a Russian-British satirist/author/podcaster. View or listen in to the podcast here.
Described by Mr. Peterson as “the most totalitarian bill in the West,” high-profile historian Dr. Muriel Blaive has denounced the bill as “outright mad” and “against all our Western legal tradition.” Even Elon Musk has taken notice, tweeting in response to a C-63 post circulated by American investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger (@newstart_2024): “This sounds insane if accurate!”
In conversation with Jordan Peterson for his podcast, professor of Law at Queen’s University and executive director of Rights Probe, Bruce Pardy, stressed that “the coverage” used by Canada to justify the proposed Act is perfect, since “no one in their right mind” could refuse to legislate to protect minors from online harm. However, what lies behind it is “an attack on the very idea of freedom of expression.”
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