Max Genest - October 09, 2025


CANADA JAILS MAN FOR DENYING HOLOCAUST

Topics
Free Speech censorship
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Max Genest
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Bill C-63 Kenneth Paulin Kevin Waugh Trudeau
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3 minutes

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Word count

571

Sentence count

57

Harmful content

Toxicity

3

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1

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In Canada, you can go to jail for words. Not violence, not threats, just words. A man in North Bay, Ontario was sentenced to nine months in jail for denying the Holocaust. Since when did speech become a crime? Since when does the government get to decide which opinions are allowed and which ones aren t?

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00:00:00.000 In Canada, right now, you can go to jail for words. Not violence, not threats, just words.
00:00:06.240 A man in North Bay, Ontario, Kenneth Paulin, 51 years old, was sentenced to nine months in jail
00:00:11.900 for denying the Holocaust. That's not a rumor, that's real. Nine months in prison, not for what
00:00:17.380 he did, but for what he said. Since when did speech become a crime? Since when does the
00:00:22.160 government get to decide which opinions are allowed and which ones aren't? Freedom of speech
00:00:27.440 means exactly that, the freedom to speak, to use your own mouth, to express your own thoughts
00:00:34.080 without fear of punishment. That's not a privilege. That's a human right. It should be protected. It
00:00:41.420 should be absolute. It should never demand on who's in power or what the topic is. Free speech
00:00:46.680 is the right to say the most stupid, vile, immoral, inaccurate things imaginable because if you only 0.99
00:00:52.880 defend speech you agree with, you don't believe in free speech at all. The best remedy to false 0.99
00:00:58.180 information expressed by free speech is more free speech. You don't need permission. You don't need
00:01:04.060 approval. You don't need the government's blessing to speak. And here's the part that should bother
00:01:09.140 every so-called conservative. This didn't start with the liberals. It started with a conservative
00:01:15.560 MP, Kevin Waugh. He introduced Bill C-250, a proposal to make Holocaust denial a criminal
00:01:22.260 offense. That bill didn't pass on its own, but the Trudeau government quietly folded it into the
00:01:28.680 2022 budget, Bill C-19. Now under a section of the criminal code, you can be charged and jailed
00:01:35.520 for denying or downplaying the Holocaust. But here is the question. Who is deciding what those words
00:01:41.980 actually mean? Who is defining downplaying? Who is defining denying? A bureaucrat, a prosecutor,
00:01:47.960 a politician, an activist judge. Once you hand that kind of power to the state, the power to
00:01:54.220 define and punish speech, it never stops there. It always grows because power always grows.
00:02:01.300 And that's the paradox of censorship. When the government forbids you to say something,
00:02:06.200 people start to believe it must be true. When you outlaw an opinion, you don't destroy it.
00:02:11.560 You validate it. You make it stronger. Instead of stopping misinformation, censorship fuels it.
00:02:17.560 it turns disbelief into curiosity and curiosity into conviction. And here's a double standard.
00:02:23.300 Here's the hypocrisy. This October, an immigrant truck driver who previously killed two people 0.96
00:02:28.740 and fled the country was just granted bail. A man can take lies and walk free, but another can be
00:02:35.320 jailed for words. That's not justice. That's ideology. Free speech isn't about what's popular
00:02:41.100 and it's not about what's responsible. It's about the right to speak and to be left alone while
00:02:46.860 doing it. You don't defend freedom by criminalizing speech. You defend freedom by refusing to let
00:02:52.880 government touch it in the first place. And the fact that this came from a so-called conservative
00:02:58.940 shows how far that party has fallen. They're not conserving liberty. They're conserving control.
00:03:05.700 So yes, Canada just jailed the man for words. And if you think it ends there, you're not paying
00:03:11.320 attention because once free speech becomes a crime, thought becomes a crime next. Free speech
00:03:16.520 is a human right. It belongs to every person. No exceptions, no conditions, and no one should ever
00:03:22.860 go to jail for what they say. Not in a free country, not ever.