Juno News - March 01, 2024


Trudeau is trying to END Free Speech with new censorship law

Topics
Tate Speech laws
Hosted by
Harrison Faulkner
Mentioned
Justin Trudeau Bill C-63 Online Harms Bill Pierre Poilievre Yankee Pollack Jerry Butts Ezra Levant Arif Arani
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5

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Justin Trudeau's three act censorship in Canada is now complete. Bill C-63 is the final act in this true Canadian censorship tragedy, and it is as bad as you expected it to be, and probably even worse. Now, of course, this bill is packaged with a nice glossy finish to appeal to Canadians by saying this is all about protecting children online, which we all agree with. But in reality, that glossy finish only serves to hide the true motivation behind this legislation, which is to enforce a digital police state on online dialogue, to use the power of the state to enforce ideological conformity online. If you dare to breach the boundaries of what the Trudeau government wants you to say and think online, you may find yourself in prison.

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00:00:00.000 Oh my god, we are in deep trouble Canada.
00:00:09.000 Justin Trudeau's three-act censorship performance in this country is now complete.
00:00:15.000 It began with Bill C-11, which gave the CRTC the ability to regulate user-generated content
00:00:21.000 and manipulate algorithms to promote government-determined Canadian content.
00:00:27.000 Then we had Bill C-18, which has resulted in a complete blackout of news on Facebook across Canada.
00:00:33.000 And now we have the final act in this true Canadian censorship tragedy, Bill C-63, the online harms bill.
00:00:41.000 It is as bad as you expected it to be, and probably even worse.
00:00:45.000 Now, of course, this bill is packaged with a nice glossy finish to appeal to Canadians
00:00:49.000 by saying this is all about protecting children online, which we all agree with.
00:00:53.000 But in reality, that glossy finish only serves to hide the true motivation behind this extremely dangerous legislation,
00:00:59.000 which, of course, is to enforce a digital police state on online dialogue.
00:01:04.000 To use the power of the state to enforce ideological conformity online.
00:01:09.000 If you dare to breach the boundaries of what the Trudeau government wants you to say and even think online,
00:01:14.000 you may find yourself in prison.
00:01:16.000 You may find yourself in front of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal having to pay up to $70,000.
00:01:22.000 This is free expression's last stand in Canada.
00:01:25.000 And don't accuse me of being hyperbolic.
00:01:27.000 Read the legislation and you will see just how dangerous this really is.
00:01:31.000 Before we get into the show, drop a like in the video.
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00:01:35.000 Stick around for the ratio of the week.
00:01:37.000 And the comment question for the episode is this.
00:01:40.000 Since we know this is not actually about protecting children online,
00:01:44.000 what do you think the Trudeau government's motivation is behind this online harms bill?
00:01:48.000 Let me know your answer in the comments below and let's get into it.
00:01:51.000 So as not to bury the lead like so much of the legacy media reporting on this legislation,
00:01:55.000 we're just going to get right to the point that matters the most,
00:01:58.000 which is that if you now violate online hate speech laws, you could end up in prison for life.
00:02:05.000 Now how exactly will you find yourself in prison for violating these hate speech laws?
00:02:09.000 The government has defined what that means in this legislation.
00:02:13.000 Using definitions from past Supreme Court rulings on this issue,
00:02:17.000 content that foments hatred will be defined as
00:02:21.000 any content that expresses detestation or vilification of an individual or group of individuals
00:02:27.000 on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination within the meaning of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
00:02:33.000 And that given the context in which it is communicated is likely to foment detestation
00:02:38.000 or vilification of an individual or group of individuals on the basis of such a prohibited ground.
00:02:43.000 Now to show the Canadian people how much the government truly believes in free expression,
00:02:48.000 if your online hate content merely offends, discredits, humiliates or hurts a victim,
00:02:54.000 you won't end up in prison. How generous.
00:02:57.000 But if that online hate speech expresses detestation or vilification,
00:03:01.000 that's when you find yourself in some serious trouble.
00:03:04.000 This bill also reintroduces section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act,
00:03:08.000 which as this bill says,
00:03:10.000 it is a discriminatory practice to communicate or cause to be communicated hate speech
00:03:14.000 by means of the internet in a context in which the hate speech is likely to foment detestation
00:03:19.000 or vilification of an individual or group of individuals based on a prohibited grounds of discrimination.
00:03:24.000 Now those grounds of discrimination include gender, race, disability and the like.
00:03:30.000 So now if you violate section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act,
00:03:33.000 you could be hauled before a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal,
00:03:36.000 in which case you could end up being forced to pay $70,000 and be ordered to take down your hate speech content.
00:03:42.000 Now, if somebody brings a complaint against you for violating this online hate speech law,
00:03:46.000 the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal will hide the identity of the person accusing you of violating the law.
00:03:52.000 So you will have no idea of who's actually accusing you of posting online hate speech.
00:03:57.000 Also under section 13, you will be held liable for anything you've ever posted online,
00:04:02.000 which can still be deleted.
00:04:04.000 So anything you've ever posted, which has communicated hate speech or caused to have communicated hate speech,
00:04:09.000 can find you hauled before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
00:04:12.000 Now we're not even done.
00:04:14.000 You can be hauled before a provincial judge if somebody fears on reasonable grounds that you may commit online hate speech.
00:04:22.000 So you haven't even done anything wrong yet.
00:04:24.000 But if someone fears that you may commit hate speech,
00:04:28.000 a provincial judge can order you to wear a tracking device,
00:04:32.000 can order you to stay at your place of residence at specified times.
00:04:37.000 A judge can order you into what is described as a recognizance for no more than 12 months.
00:04:42.000 If you breach the terms of this recognizance for not committing hate speech,
00:04:47.000 but because someone fears you might commit hate speech,
00:04:50.000 you can end up in prison for 12 months.
00:04:52.000 Not to worry.
00:04:53.000 The Attorney General of Canada has made it clear on the CBC
00:04:56.000 that he is duty bound to protect the free expression of Canadians.
00:05:00.000 Is that people talk to me about freedom of expression.
00:05:03.000 I'm duty bound to defend that and always will.
00:05:05.000 It is a charter protected right.
00:05:06.000 I swore an oath to uphold the constitution.
00:05:08.000 But what I also explain to people is that right now a lot of what you put out to the world
00:05:13.000 and also what you receive in terms of your feed is being decided for you.
00:05:17.000 Not by a government, but by a private company.
00:05:19.000 That private company is making decisions behind closed doors.
00:05:22.000 We don't know what decisions they're taking or why they're taking them.
00:05:25.000 The Attorney General also wants you to know that the legislation,
00:05:28.000 because he's duty bound to protect freedom of expression,
00:05:30.000 does not violate free speech in Canada.
00:05:33.000 But I want to be crystal clear about what the Online Harms Act does not do.
00:05:38.000 It does not undermine freedom of speech.
00:05:41.000 It enhances free expression by empowering all people to safely participate in online debate.
00:05:48.000 This bill has nothing to do with protecting children online.
00:05:52.000 The government simply added that so that they could accuse anyone who opposes this bill
00:05:56.000 of saying they want to endanger children on the internet.
00:05:59.000 Which besides being completely false is also disgusting.
00:06:03.000 We know this because the original Online Harms Bill doesn't even mention the word children once.
00:06:08.000 They simply took the original Online Harms Bill
00:06:11.000 and then added all these protections for children online
00:06:14.000 so that they could try to push this through and hope nobody would notice.
00:06:18.000 Now I don't think any Canadian would oppose laws that protect children.
00:06:21.000 But that's the most insidious part about this.
00:06:24.000 They're using that to ram through this insanely authoritarian legislation. 0.91
00:06:29.000 For committing pre-crimes, you can end up being forced to wear an ankle monitor.
00:06:34.000 For online content, which was completely reasonable years ago,
00:06:38.000 you can now be held liable for that content and be forced to pay up to $70,000
00:06:43.000 without knowing who your accuser is.
00:06:45.000 And you can now end up in prison for life for violating online hate speech.
00:06:49.000 Now, Pierre Polyev has vowed to oppose this legislation,
00:06:52.000 describing it as an attack on freedom of expression, which of course it is.
00:06:56.000 Will the Conservatives oppose the reintroduction of these provisions
00:07:00.000 and the Liberals' approach to so-called online hate speech?
00:07:04.000 Yes, we will oppose Justin Trudeau's latest attack on freedom of expression.
00:07:13.000 And I want to ask, what does Justin Trudeau mean when he says the word hate speech?
00:07:21.000 He means speech he hates.
00:07:23.000 So, for example, let's go through some of the things he said is hate speech.
00:07:27.000 Jerry Butts, the PMO puppet master, said that it was hate speech to criticize Trudeau 0.79
00:07:33.000 for using the ridiculous term people kind.
00:07:37.000 Justin Trudeau said anyone who criticized him during the pandemic was engaging in hate speech.
00:07:43.000 And the Canadian Civil Liberties Association agrees, demanding to the federal government
00:07:47.000 that they undertake significant amendments to this bill in order to protect free expression.
00:07:52.000 As they say, our initial assessment reveals that the bill includes overbroad violations of expressive freedom,
00:07:58.000 privacy, protest rights and liberty.
00:08:01.000 These must be rectified before the bill is passed into law.
00:08:04.000 These laws will be interpreted through the lens of radical progressive leftist ideology.
00:08:09.000 That's because the only people who actually support online hate speech laws are radical progressive leftists.
00:08:15.000 Freedom of speech is a threat to these people.
00:08:19.000 Now, of course, vilifying the unvaccinated, for example, that is totally fine. 1.00
00:08:23.000 That doesn't fall under Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
00:08:27.000 But if, for example, you take issue with grown men competing against girls in sports
00:08:31.000 and accessing girls change rooms, well, I think you should start preparing for what you're going to say
00:08:36.000 to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
00:08:38.000 Speaking of, maybe I should start preparing what I'm going to say to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
00:08:42.000 when someone who I don't know has accused me and this show of violating Section 13 of that Canadian Human Rights Act.
00:08:49.000 It's really only a matter of time.
00:08:51.000 But maybe then again, I'll be able to meet some of you in person in the free speech gulag. 0.57
00:08:55.000 Alright, time for the race show of the week.
00:08:57.000 The winner this week is the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs in Canada, known as CEJA.
00:09:03.000 They were just begging for the award this week after they put out on social media
00:09:08.000 a call for all Canadians to write to their MPs to support Bill C-63, to support the online harms bill.
00:09:16.000 Tell your member of parliament to support Canada's Jews and Bill C-63. 0.98
00:09:21.000 As Jews know all too well, what happens online does not stay online.
00:09:25.000 It affects our community, our children in real life.
00:09:29.000 On Monday, February 26th, Minister of Justice Arif Arani tabled the long-awaited Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act.
00:09:36.000 With this act, we have a chance to diminish Jew hatred online.
00:09:41.000 Unbelievable.
00:09:42.000 They are getting roasted in the comments here.
00:09:44.000 The ratio right now is 143 replies to only 19 likes.
00:09:49.000 The majority of these comments, of course, have ratioed the post.
00:09:52.000 They've got more likes in the post itself.
00:09:54.000 And notably, it's Jewish Canadians who are ripping CEJA apart right now. 1.00
00:09:59.000 Yankee Polak at Rebel News wrote this,
00:10:02.000 You don't represent me or any Jew I know. 0.99
00:10:05.000 How about this comment as well?
00:10:07.000 No, I'm Jewish and I do not support laws that suppress and punish offensive speech online or otherwise.
00:10:13.000 C-63 is the stuff of tyrants.
00:10:16.000 This bill is a terrible, horrible thing.
00:10:19.000 It will not accomplish what it sets out to do.
00:10:21.000 And it will backfire big time when it's weaponized in some novel way in the near future.
00:10:26.000 This bill must not make it into law.
00:10:28.000 And as Ezra Levant points out,
00:10:30.000 I don't suppose your support for Trudeau's authoritarian censorship plans
00:10:34.000 have anything to do with him giving $250,000 in grants to your lobby group.
00:10:39.000 Interesting.
00:10:40.000 No, I'm sure that has nothing to do with it.
00:10:42.000 Unbelievable.
00:10:43.000 What else can you really say that hasn't been said on that post already?
00:10:45.000 All right, everyone.
00:10:46.000 That's going to do it for us this week on the show.
00:10:48.000 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:10:49.000 My name is Harrison Faulkner and this is ratio.
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