Greg Wycliffe - The Online Harms Act is Pivotal for Canada

00:00:00.160 Hello everyone, I am making this video because I am quite concerned and afraid of this online

00:00:11.320 harms act that was read a week ago, had its first reading a week ago on Monday. I made

00:00:18.600 a short video about it. Thought crime bill, they want to expand the definition of hate

00:00:23.540 speech. And yeah, it's completely absurd and insane. And I feel like a lot of people are

00:00:32.140 in disbelief for various reasons of it actually passing or it actually being real or it wouldn't

00:00:38.640 be passed in that way, wouldn't be as bad. And I, I understand where you're coming from.

00:00:47.240 We don't want to believe that things are this bad. But if there's anything that I've completely

00:00:52.060 lost faith in, it is the institutions in this country, like every single one of them.

00:00:59.380 And I'm, it reminds like the feelings I'm having reminds me of right after the freedom trucker

00:01:07.060 convoy where my friend Jeremy McKenzie got arrested. Morgan May got arrested. Um, a politician named

00:01:16.680 Randy Hillier got arrested and on his bail conditions. Uh, it said that I am not allowed

00:01:22.580 to talk to him or he can't talk to me or something like this. Uh, I'm not actually allowed to talk to

00:01:29.100 Randy now, as long as it's about his, uh, his legal defense. So I'll be able to have a conversation

00:01:34.160 with him soon. But anyway, the point is after the convoy, you know, people were getting arrested.

00:01:40.360 My friend Tyler Russell left the country, you know, and, um, there's a number of others,

00:01:47.680 of course, who got arrested. I'm not sure I don't need to, to, you know, Chris Barber,

00:01:51.700 Tamara Litch, um, Daniel Bulford, of course. And, uh, at the time I had a serious contemplation

00:02:06.180 of, do I need to leave the country? Am I safe here? I'm a Canadian born in Canada. Like,

00:02:16.140 am I allowed to like still be here, exist here? And am I allowed to say, am I allowed to talk

00:02:23.400 about what's happening or is I going to put a bigger target on my black blah, blah, blah. And, 0.96

00:02:28.800 uh, the, that scenario of political dissidents being arrested and persecuted by the state

00:02:40.400 for nothing other than their opinion, it tells me that there is a political will in the Canadian

00:02:49.900 establishment to arrest dissidents, to throw them in jail, to make their life difficult for, 1.00

00:02:57.940 calling them out for their bullshit. And this back, back to bill C 63, AKA the online, online 0.99

00:03:09.400 harms act. This is the perfect tool. This is the perfect tool to be able to shut anybody they want

00:03:17.820 up at any point, uh, for basically whatever reason it's, it's kind of perfect, uh, saying that we're

00:03:25.540 going to stop hate and being able to have this like really kind of like flimsy hate thing. You

00:03:31.860 could really like, you know, you could attribute hate to any criticism really, or anytime somebody

00:03:39.420 raises their voice on camera, you could say, look how hateful this person is. Like there's some,

00:03:43.880 Hey, that's not a joke. That's hate. The funny thing about this legislation. And you know, I went to

00:03:49.580 school for like media studies, which was like a lot of like bullshit, um, writing essays about 0.99

00:03:53.860 bullshit. Um, which is, which is a lot of what leftism has become and wokeism has become and, 0.96

00:04:00.900 you know, call it colonialization. Let me write an article about, let me write a, let me write an

00:04:06.420 essay about colonialization. And you know, conveniently this piece of legislation, the online harms act,

00:04:13.500 you could basically write an essay to prove that anyone is a Nazi or a hateful bigot, like in a,

00:04:20.520 in a round, in a roundabout way, you could argue, well, actually they're vilifying someone or they're

00:04:25.280 detesting somebody. And I think they're going to do this. Uh, yeah. So anyway, my point is, uh,

00:04:34.840 I think there's a political will to arrest dissidents in this country. I think that's already been proven.

00:04:41.440 And this bill that's been tabled last week, although it's absurd, although it's insane,

00:04:49.040 I think there is a political will to pass this bill by both the conservative party and the liberal

00:04:56.060 party. I think they're really very much one in the same. And it would actually be a double play

00:05:02.380 for the conservative party. If this passes. Okay. It would be, uh, if, if the bill passes and

00:05:10.000 Polyev is like, I did everything I could to stop it. Oh no. And like, he obviously didn't,

00:05:15.800 but it would be great for him for two reasons. Number one, he gets to say, wow, Trudeau so bad.

00:05:22.240 I'm going to repeal this bill. I'm going to repeal this bill. Don't you want this bill repealed?

00:05:26.040 Vote for me, vote for me. Even though the bill will already be in effect, uh, by the time he's in

00:05:31.380 office. So he gets to use it as a reason for why he's better than Trudeau, Trudeau, bad, blah, blah,

00:05:37.040 blah. Uh, he, he can act like the savior and that can be like a reason to want to support him.

00:05:43.300 And then number two, uh, the bill, he can use the bill. The bill can be used in the meantime to get

00:05:49.640 rid of inconvenient people and convenient people like Jeremy McKenzie, for example.

00:05:53.980 Uh, Jeremy McKenzie and his big fat mouth, you know, this is a, somebody who Pierre Polyev does

00:06:03.520 not like, and has basically like call like singled out and called him and his community odious.

00:06:11.700 Um, and for those who don't know what I'm talking about, I should make a video about this. Cause

00:06:17.200 it's really, really important. Pierre Polyev likes to say, uh, we're going to stop the gatekeeper.

00:06:23.980 We're going to stop the gatekeepers, get the gatekeepers out of the way. No, Pierre Polyev is

00:06:29.920 the gatekeepers. The conservative party are the gatekeepers, the conservative establishment,

00:06:38.240 or sorry, the blue colored part of the Canadian establishment are the gatekeepers. And the perfect 1.00

00:06:43.960 example is a short documentary by shoot. What's that guy's name? But it was, it was about freedom of

00:06:53.140 speech in Canada. Uh, Aaron Gunn, Aaron Gunn, he makes some nice documentaries, whatever. He's now a

00:07:01.180 conservative party candidate, by the way, conveniently. But in this documentary about freedom of speech in

00:07:08.920 Canada, he does not mention the trucker convoy is maybe mentioned once. Jeremy McKenzie is not

00:07:15.340 mentioned who got thrown in jail for all sorts of insane reasons having to do with his speech. Uh,

00:07:22.280 Archer Pawlowski was not mentioned. Somebody who gave a speech at the coots protest and got charged

00:07:29.960 with some crazy charge of having to do with like destroying infrastructure. The worst cases of

00:07:36.860 authoritarian crackdown on people's speech or because there are political opinions were not

00:07:43.680 mentioned in this documentary all about free speech. Doctors who got their licenses taken away

00:07:51.980 for talking about the COVID and the jabby jab, they were not mentioned, but, but Jordan Peterson was

00:07:58.580 mentioned. Jordan Peterson was mentioned in the, in the college of psychologists. What about all of these

00:08:03.940 doctors who lost their medical license for talking about that thing that was, uh, you know, not really

00:08:09.480 tested that well? A much more grave situation. And again, with Jeremy McKenzie getting thrown in jail,

00:08:17.620 almost getting killed in jail, much more grave situation or Morgan May getting arrested for jail

00:08:25.500 theft. Sorry, not jail theft, gas theft. That's a crazy, insane story, but none, none, none of these

00:08:33.920 none of these insane stories about, about Canadian citizens basically being targeted for their

00:08:42.320 political opinion. No, this was not mentioned in, uh, in this documentary, all about free speech.

00:08:48.940 Who was in this documentary? Pierre Polyev was in it. He's, he's, he's this champion of free speech in

00:08:54.640 it. Jamil Giovanni, conservative candidate was in it. Aaron Gunn, the creator of this documentary

00:09:00.540 is now a conservative party candidate. You see where I'm going here. These people want to gatekeep

00:09:07.420 out the real dissidents, the real people who are taking the slings and arrows and who are actually

00:09:13.740 calling out the Canadian establishment. So yes, they're probably going to want that bill. They're

00:09:20.000 probably going to want bill, want the online harms act so they can get rid of these people who are,

00:09:25.580 they're clearly trying to gatekeep out of the, you know, conservative party or conservative

00:09:30.900 conversation. And it makes sense why they want to get rid of these people. Because if there's anybody

00:09:37.000 who makes Pierre Polyev look like a jackass, it's someone like Jeremy McKenzie. It's someone like 0.99

00:09:43.460 Archer Pavlowski. It's these people who are like, Hey, you're not even a real conservative. You're not

00:09:48.880 even opposing mass migration, blah, blah, blah. Anyway. Um, I want to try to start making more

00:09:55.680 videos like this because I do have a platform and I really do think this is the hill to die on.

00:10:01.760 There's a lot of other things that I think we need to talk about. Um, I kind of want to like

00:10:07.520 document, I think this, uh, this chapter of, uh, of kind of like Canadian political happenings and,

00:10:18.480 uh, and I guess myself because, uh, yeah, I'm like, if this passes, uh, am I, do I have to leave the

00:10:26.520 country or something? You know, like it's, I, I make comedy. I make controversial comedy. I make

00:10:33.840 controversial comments. I like to push the envelope with political commentary. There's a lot of things

00:10:39.820 that you could say are hateful that I have posted on the internet and that's just who I am. Okay.

00:10:47.780 And not that I'm hateful, but it's like, I, I like to, I like to offend people. I like to push the

00:10:54.420 envelope and, and push people's buttons. And, uh, you know, I like to be thought provoking and by virtue

00:11:01.420 of that, it upsets people. I like to, you know, challenge people's point of view. Oh, you're

00:11:07.880 hateful, you know? So, uh, yeah. Anyway, this is the hill to die on. This is the bill, the online 0.63

00:11:17.220 harms act that, uh, I'm going to keep talking about. I want to do, I want to try and do something about

00:11:21.920 it. Um, network with people and just kind of start brainstorming ideas to push against this.

00:11:27.780 Cause as I said, um, I really don't think the conservative party is going to do much about

00:11:33.520 this. They'd be able to make a double play if they let it pass to be like, Hey, true to bad.

00:11:39.540 But then they don't, they would also be happy to have it be used against people they don't like.

00:11:44.880 Um, yeah. So I guess my point is it might, it may sound absurd. It may sound insane, but, uh,

00:11:54.640 I mean, look around at these institutions, look around at even alternative institutions like

00:11:59.760 rebel news in true North news. You know, these people are clearly shilling for the conservative

00:12:05.320 party of Canada. Thankfully, they're at least talking about this bill, but it's like people

00:12:10.880 need to be the, where is the urgency? Where is the urgency against this bill? Where was the,

00:12:18.640 where was the urgency against the authoritarian actions of Justin Trudeau after the trucker convoy?

00:12:24.640 That wasn't really coming from Pierre Polyev. It was very, you know what I mean? Like it's,

00:12:29.500 and it's more of the same, you know, it's more like clear authoritarian behavior and it's kind of

00:12:35.000 just this lukewarm response. And, you know, aside from, again, Jeremy McKenzie, Arthur Buflowski,

00:12:42.800 and a handful of others, like no one else is treating this with the proper amount of urgency.

00:12:49.540 And I think there's this sort of fatigue as well that a lot of us are feeling, especially the people

00:12:55.340 who pay attention to what's going on. There's this sort of fatigue of like, Oh God, like,

00:13:01.180 you know, like, is it over yet? Like, this is horrible. Like, could it get any worse?

00:13:06.300 Well, it is getting worse. And this is, this would make it actually, this would really in a,

00:13:12.040 in a large respect, actually make it the end and it would be over. Yes. Mass migration, United Nations, 0.95

00:13:18.860 like all these things are important, but you can't talk about anything. If the online harms act

00:13:26.060 passes, you can't talk about anything because you'll have all sorts of excuses to trip you up,

00:13:33.440 to fine you, to catch you up in court. And you really think that's going to make Canadians more 0.57

00:13:39.340 likely to speak out and start speaking out more, which is what we need more of. No, it's going to be

00:13:43.980 the opposite. This is, this is a very pivotal, this bill passing or not passing is like super pivotal

00:13:52.240 in, in the, in the future of this country, I think. Anyway, I'm going to try to, you know,

00:13:58.480 get on some more content work, but thanks so much for watching guys. And we will talk to you soon.

Greg Wycliffe - March 05, 2024

The Online Harms Act is Pivotal for Canada

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