This Video Is A Future H8 Crime
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Summary
In this episode, John talks about the growing problem of hate speech in Canada and why it could be a problem in the future. He also talks about why hate speech is a problem, and what we should do about it.
Transcript
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 5.59 a.m., Tuesday, December the 2nd.
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I hope you're having a great start to your Tuesday morning.
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I've got my big blue mug of coffee, of course, with me today.
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I just want to start off this video by saying that it's quite possible this video might
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I get reported to the police, I get a knock on my door, and I'm hauled off to jail in
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Some person might be offended by something I say, they don't like what I say online, and
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I get a knock on the door, and I'm hauled off to jail by the police in handcuffs.
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Thomas Paine said, he who dares not to offend cannot be honest.
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So I might be a little offensive here, and this could be considered hate speech in the
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not-too-distant future, if things continue the way they're going right now.
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And I think there's two reasons why this is happening.
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Conservatives blast removal of religious exemption and hate speech laws as an assault on freedom
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And there's 16 occasions in this article where hate or hateful or hatred are used.
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Do you trust Mark Carney and the liberals and the Bloc Québécois to make a decision on what
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Liberals and leftists consider hate speech anything that they disagree with.
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Opposition conservatives say a deal between the governing liberals and the Bloc Québécois
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to remove a religious exemption from Canada's hate speech laws in exchange for passing a bill
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targeting hate and terror symbols is an assault on freedom of speech and religion.
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The amendments are expected to be tabled during Tuesday's meeting of the Parliamentary Justice
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Committee studying the legislation known as Bill C-9, which conservatives have vowed to
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The Bloc Québécois said removing the exemption was necessary to help prosecute rising hateful
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and anti-Semitic rhetoric often made under the guise of exempted religious speech.
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Who's doing anti-Semitic rhetoric in this country?
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Liberal Bloc amendments to C-9 will criminalize sections of the Bible, Koran, Torah, and other
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Conservatives will oppose this latest liberal assault on freedom of religion and expression.
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You should be able to say anything you damn well please in this country.
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The only exemption would be threatening somebody, somebody's life or harm to somebody or a group
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And there are laws already on the books for that.
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Here's the actual video that Polyev links in his tweet.
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If someone were literally invoking a passage from, in this case, the Bible, but there are other
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religious texts that say the same thing, and somehow say that this is good faith.
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I mean, clearly there are situations in these texts where these statements are hateful.
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They should not be used to invoke or be a defense.
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And there should perhaps be discretion for prosecutors to press charges.
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I just want to understand what your notion of good faith is in this context where there
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are clearly passages in religious texts that are clearly hateful.
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I think there's one reason that they're kind of glossing over, which I'm going to get to
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A lot of the focus on this is regarding religious symbols.
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It could be the Star of David, but it's head coverings.
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It's got something to do with people marching in the streets, which we've seen a lot of
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since October 7th, a specific religious group that does that.
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I think they stretch it a little bit too far into the point where it's almost a threat towards
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There's this article here in the National Post, Chris Selle.
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Quebec's war on religion goes to a whole new level.
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When Quebec politicians talk about religion in this context, roughly 97% of the time they
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You've still got people marching in the streets over what happened on October 7th.
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And this could be considered hate speech in the future.
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But there's even more to this that they're not talking about.
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Liberal deal with bloc means hate speech laws will lose exemption for sincerely held religious
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Let's go down to this part of this article right here.
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Now, they talk about a bill that was tabled by the Bloc Québécois on November 23rd.
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At the time, the Bloc Québécois argued that its bill was necessary to combat the outpouring
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of hate speech and anti-Semitism following the October 7th terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel
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They also pointed out comments by Montreal Imam Adil Charcawi calling for the extermination
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of Zionist aggressors during the public prayer.
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In addition, the Bloc, Jewish, and LGBTQ groups have called for years for the Liberal government
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to remove the religious exemption from hate speech laws, arguing it has allowed for the
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proliferation of anti-Semitic, which was the first thing I talked about, and homophobic
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They're going after religion because of the alphabet people.
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Now, here's something else that might be considered hate speech in the future, and
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This may be considered hate speech in the future if this kind of law continues to go on.
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Benjamin Franklin said, whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing
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the freeness of speech, and the liberals and the Bloc are going after it here, and there's
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going to be more of this in the future if the liberals stay in power.
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Canada needs a strong hate speech laws, not thought crime laws like Bill C-9.
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The problem with Bill C-9, the government's proposed combating hate act, is not that it
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protects Canadians from hatred, but that it risks stretching those protections far beyond
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The bill introduces vague new offenses, removes long-standing oversight by the Attorney General,
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and allows for prosecution based on symbols or speech that involve the vilification of
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While it carves out exceptions for journalism and education, they are imprecise, and the
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impression and imprecision of the bill is exactly the problem.
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Broad and subjective language creates uncertainty about what qualifies as protected discourse and
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puts a chill on free speech, and it's meant to do that.
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More importantly, imprecision can be weaponized by a government that's keen on silencing political
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Now, people say, what are you really worried about, John?
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While this might seem alarmist in Canada in 2025, it probably seems similarly alarmist to citizens
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in the United Kingdom, who are now being arrested more than 30 every day for tweets deemed offensive
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Tell us why you escalated it to this level, because I don't understand.
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Because there's something he shared, then I shared.
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Because someone has been caused, obviously, anxiety based upon your social media post.
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The Times, 20 to 3, 1440, are arresting you on suspicion of improper use of the electronic
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So you do not have to say that it may harm your defence if you don't mention one question
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To you, okay, this is in relation to some comments that you've made on a Facebook page.
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So we need to ask you some questions about that.
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So anyone who's been arrested, we can search them on the Section 32 of the Police Department
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And that's the dangerous item, I've got to find them.
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I mean, you said I was going to be arrested under some what information?
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I'm going to be arrested for posting on Facebook.
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We had reports that you've made some comments that are offensive, obscene, and people have
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And it's transferred from a Facebook account in your name.
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Can you, can you tell me what this comment was?
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Okay, well, we'll do that when we interview you.
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And so, when am I going to be locked up for the night, or...
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Where you post something that causes gross offence, or of a menacing character which causes a person
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I'm going to share it to my 30,000 followers right now.
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It took me less than a minute to come up with those three examples, and there are a lot
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You see the people sitting there, bewildered at how they can be arrested for something they
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said on Facebook, and the cop sits there with a smug look on their face.
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Because a section so-and-so, you're going to jail because somebody was offended by what
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And what's amazing is, if you keep looking online, you'll find the people who did what
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I just did a couple of minutes ago, stating a biological fact there are only two genders,
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and they're in jail, and that could happen here.
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Meanwhile, you've got police over there who aren't solving 95% of the crimes in England.
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No, they're at somebody's house arresting somebody because somebody was offended by some
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Do you want the liberals and the government determining what is and what is not hate speech in this
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George Washington had some wise words a long, long, well, more than 200 years ago.
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He said, if freedom of speech is taken away, then deaf and dumb, we shall be led like sheep
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250 years later, we're not listening to the warning.
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I was just looking over here at some of the things to come.
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Bill C-2 gives government and police access to your personal information.
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Bill C-8 gives the government the power to cut off your internet, your phone line, your cell phone.
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Bill C-8 also gives them the right to keep the previous secret.
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Bill C-8, Minister of Industry can decide you're a threat and get your address book, search
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history, browser history, and no warrant, no trial, no judicial review needed.
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Bill C-10 would give the government enormous power to regulate social media content.
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And this video could be considered a hate crime in the future.