🇨🇦 History Vilified
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Summary
Bill C-9 allows hate on people with unpopular political opinions, even if they are a member of an identifiable group, like academic Frances Whittowson, who holds an unpopular political opinion. And yet, because political opinion doesn't fall under the criminal code, well, you can hate on someone like her as much as you'd like, and face no criminal consequences whatsoever.
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And it was not just burning churches. There was an ongoing campaign after this to cancel Canada Day,
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to decolonize Canada. We saw the destruction and vandalism of countless Sir John A. Macdonald
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statues. Also, the Sir Egerton Ryerson statue got torn down. A Queen Victoria statue got ripped
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down. It's not an exaggeration to say that this was a mainstream vilification of Canadian history
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as a whole. All of these individuals and statues are part of an identifiable group, by the way.
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people who are white or of European descent. I interviewed academic Frances Whittowson,
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who could be considered an expert on Indigenous issues in Canada, and she's gone to countless
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campuses in Canada to talk about this issue of residential schools, and she's ultimately been
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met with hatred, and in some cases for her supporters, assault and violence on university
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campuses. And for Frances, she may hold an unpopular political opinion, but because political
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opinion doesn't make you part of an identifiable group in the criminal code well you can hate on
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someone like francis as much as you'd like and face no criminal consequences whatsoever under
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bill c9 and do we want a country where some forms of hatred are policed and criminalized
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and then hating on people with unpopular political opinions well
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That's totally allowed. This is the Canada we get when we pass Bill C9.