Action4Canada - December 12, 2025


Update on Bill C-9


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

161.66

Word count

337

Sentence count

16


Summary

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Bill C-9 is a bill that would remove the Good Faith Religious Exemptions from the Criminal Code's hate speech provisions. It was supported by the Bloc Quebecois in the minority parliament, despite conservative opposition from Christian leaders and groups.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 What they're doing in Bill C-9, as far as I'm concerned, is absolutely criminal, and it violates so many sections of our Charter.
00:00:05.820 But anyways, the Liberals voted in favour of the Bloc Québécois amendment to remove the good faith religious exemption from the Criminal Code's hate speech provisions.
00:00:17.360 So what this does is this is going to secure the Bloc support for the bill in the minority parliament,
00:00:21.860 despite conservative opposition and concerns from Christian leaders and groups over the potential impacts on scriptural expression.
00:00:30.540 Because as we know, one of the ones, and it was Mark Miller, who claims to be a Christian,
00:00:37.360 was stating several Bible verses that address homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, and that they basically want to criminalize this.
00:00:48.920 But he referred to that, to the Bible. As a Christian, he refers to the Bible as hate speech.
00:00:53.940 And I don't know what Bible he's reading, but it's certainly not the same one that I'm reading.
00:00:59.160 So the amendment was not part of the original draft, and there was no witnesses testified on it due to prior meeting cancellations, which was last Thursday.
00:01:09.320 And like I say, we only found out on late Monday night that they were going to be having this eight-hour meeting yesterday.
00:01:15.620 And so people were calling and lobbying all day.
00:01:18.740 And I just, again, I was in a meeting with a group of over 900 pastors and church leaders and other leaders yesterday morning.
00:01:27.220 And everybody was coming together to lobby the government and to call their elected representatives.
00:01:33.700 But Justice Minister Sean Fraser stated that change won't target religious texts and that it will just strengthen hate crime tools.
00:01:45.860 But I just, none of us are going to fall for that.
00:01:49.880 We believe this is a lie and that it will indeed lead to the further persecution of Christians in Canada,
00:01:55.520 especially when these activist groups or individuals start claiming harm and victimhood.
00:01:59.980 And the case then goes before activists, politicians, judges, and human rights tribunals.