Juno News - October 01, 2025


The liberal government may revive elements of its shelved online speech bill

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Steven Guilbeault Stéphane Guybeau
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1 minute

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182.12

Word count

313

Sentence count

13


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Bill C-51 is back in the House of Commons, and with it, the threat of a bill that could have curtailed free speech and online expression in Canada. What does this mean for the future of free speech in Canada?

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00:00:00.000 I know that I think you guys are doing more of a deep dive analysis on this because of course it's important to do your homework, but I'm seeing some concerning posts coming from members of Parliament and I think they're earnestly concerned about this.
00:00:12.600 They're saying effectively that some of the free speech or free expression issues that we were dealing with a few years ago, I think it's online harms or trying to limit what people can see and say online, that it's coming back to the House of Commons.
00:00:27.120 I saw a post from a member of parliament who was highlighting elements of this, saying that this could prevent you from expressing yourself in Canada.
00:00:35.820 Where are we with that? Are you guys taking a look at that?
00:00:38.900 So we had actually hoped that the Carney government would walk it back entirely.
00:00:43.300 And it looked like at the end of the last parliamentary session that huge swaths of that bill were completely dead.
00:00:50.320 Certainly the parts that did things like give possible life sentences for future pre-crime.
00:00:55.980 But we did see the announcement last week that Stephen Guilbeault, who it seems incredible to me, has preserved his place in government, would like to bring back a version of this bill.
00:01:06.220 So we're watching that very carefully.
00:01:08.280 OK, I'm glad you're watching that very carefully.
00:01:11.120 And based on our experience with Stéphane Guébeau with pipelines and carbon taxes and that little thing they tried slipping through in that study where they were thinking about imposing a truck tax and they dared say that we were peddling disinformation.
00:01:25.940 Yeah, that guy's an ideological zealot and we have to keep a very close eye on him.
00:01:31.460 The idea that he could be in charge of free speech laws, free speech laws, like as a tax fighter, that makes me very nervous.
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