Juno News - August 19, 2025


A report warns that ＂safetyism＂ is being weaponized by governments to justify censorship

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Sean Foyt
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2 minutes

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133.39

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367

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5


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In this episode, we are joined by the Canadian Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (CFFC) to talk about the dangers of safetyism and how governments use it to justify censorship, surveillance and restrictions on basic freedoms.

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00:00:00.000 you guys have a special report that has been put out on what you refer to as safetyism and how the
00:00:06.960 state slash government is now using safetyism and it could start trampling our rights can you expand
00:00:13.600 on that a little bit yeah so safetyism refers to a cultural or even institution or government
00:00:20.560 tendency to prioritize physical and even emotional safety above all other values you know at the
00:00:28.880 expense of those other values, including freedom, personal development, open debate and discourse.
00:00:35.580 And look, safety is, of course, important, but Canadian governments have exploited emergencies
00:00:41.980 or the sense of danger historically in the most grotesque ways. They've used the rationale of
00:00:51.120 safety to shut down Sean Foyt, to lock down the forests in Nova Scotia. They've used it to justify
00:00:57.840 censorship surveillance or restrictions on basic freedoms all in the name of protecting people from
00:01:04.480 discomfort or offense or some type of perceived risk or harm and it's this culture where no risk
00:01:11.520 is tolerable whatsoever that cellophane wrapper in the woods is apparently so dangerous that you're
00:01:17.200 not allowed to walk your dog in the forest so in this report safety above all which you can download
00:01:24.080 for free at the ccf.ca safetyism we go through the historic instances where governments have
00:01:33.760 overreached and eroded and violated civil liberties in the name of safety
00:01:39.360 and they're really disturbing examples from the invocation of the war measures act in response to
00:01:46.320 the october crisis in 1970 where habeas corpus was suspended where homes were searched without
00:01:53.040 warrants where people were arrested and detained incommunicado for for weeks there was the
00:02:01.840 detainment of an internment of japanese canadians in 1942 following japan's attack on pearl harbor
00:02:11.680 and japanese canadians were rounded up across the country and put into shacks in interior bc
00:02:18.560 without adequate heating their property was seized by the government and stole and sold
00:02:24.800 and then that money was used to finance their own internment because the government told people
00:02:30.720 that japanese canadians were too dangerous because of this you know inaccurate risk
00:02:37.760 view that they would be spying on canadians so they all had to be proactively put into these
00:02:44.080 internment camps.