EZRA LEVANT： In-depth breakdown of all four of Trudeau's online censorship bills and attacks on freedom of speech
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Justin Trudeau is trying to censor you with Bill C-11, C-18 and C-36, and the Online Harmings Act. I'll do my best to explain it, and if you watch it and it's a half hour long, I'll show you how Trudeau is colonizing what was once a very free place, the internet.
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Hello, my friends. Today, I'm going to do my best to outline the four ways Justin Trudeau
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is coming to censor you, the four bills stacked up like dominoes, one after the other, that
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he intends to bring in to silence and censor you. Bill C-11, C-18, C-36, and the Online
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Harms Act. That sounds like a lot of legal jargon. I'll do my best to explain it. And
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if you watch it and it's a half an hour long, I'll take you through the laws and I'll show
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you how Trudeau is colonizing what was once a very free place, the internet. Anyways, let
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me know what you think of it because I really think this is going to be the battle of the
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year for us. Before I get to the podcast, let me invite you to get the video version of this
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show. And especially when I'm walking you through the legislation and showing you things, I want
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you to see it with your eyes so you know I'm not just making this up, pulling out of my
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hat. I want to show you that I'm literally quoting from government websites, government
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Tonight, I have a message for Canada's friends around the world. We are now the most dangerous
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place for freedom of speech, and we need help. It's April 6th, and you're watching the Ezra Levant
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show. I'm afraid that Canada is now the most dangerous place in the world for freedom of
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speech. Look at this insane press conference just this week from the provincial legislature
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in Ontario. This new legislation in Ontario is designed to keep the 2SLGBT community safe.
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Drag artists, their audiences, the business, and the facilities that host those drag performances
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have been put at risk. And unless we put forward a strategy to protect them, Ontario's social,
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economic, and cultural richness is under attack. We have to protect that. The proposed legislation
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does two things, and I will go through them. Firstly, it enables the Attorney General to create a 2SLGBTQI plus
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community safety zone to prohibit within 100 meters of the property any homophobic, transphobic act of
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intimidation, threat, offensive threats, offensive remarks, protest disturbance, and distribution of hate
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propaganda within the meaning of the criminal code. It also comes with a penalty of $25,000 if prosecuted
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successfully. Secondly, the act creates an Ontario 2SLGBTQI plus safety advisory committee to provide
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recommendations to the provincial government on how to improve safety for our community and to prevent
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further hate. We need to be able to have the government publish an annual report and an update
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on the progress of this work. It is that critically important. Our community is scared, but we're not
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going to take it lying down. We're going to stand up and rise up where we can to fight back because we
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have to. Everything is on the line, and we need government action to be much more visible, much louder.
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Doing nothing, saying nothing is simply not good enough. This private members bill is supported by
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many prominent drag artists, not just in Canada, but I suspect that it will be supported by drag
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artists and the LGBT community around the world in short order. In case you missed it, she wants
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massive fines and even jail for being merely, making merely offensive remarks or protests. Now you probably
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didn't notice it, but I just called her a she instead of they them. So I just broke her proposed law
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right there. I misgendered her. That's offensive to her. It's pretty clear that she is offended
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all the time. You could say she's offended for a living, but there is no human right not to be
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offended. That's a counterfeit human right, which now takes precedence over real human rights like
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freedom of speech and freedom of thought. Canada's great history of civil liberties is coming to an
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end. Here's another example from just a few weeks ago. This is Jody Gondek, the mayor of Calgary,
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Canada's fourth largest city, announcing the same sort of thing that anyone who says something she finds
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hateful or vitriolic or lying should be arrested and fined. We had a drag brunch at the rec room in
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the north of Calgary by our community of drag queens in Calgary who have done amazing work promoting
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inclusion and really raising awareness of how important it is to be a welcoming community.
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Unfortunately, some members of our population thought it would be a good idea to protest this
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event, which is, I'm just going to use my opinion, a horrible thing to do. I was very happy that CPS was
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there to provide a buffer and to ensure that everyone was safe and that the show could go on.
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My question is, do we have the ability when a protest is rooted in hatred to ticket people and
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shut this down? How does it work? Some might say the mayor was hateful and vitriolic and telling
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lies. Those are not crimes, by the way. That mayor publicly demanded that police arrest a pastor
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named Derek Reimer because she found him offensive. So they arrested Derek Reimer and jailed him for
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being offensive. Maybe that's why the cops were so weird about it.
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Mr. Reimer, you are currently under arrest for breaching your 200-meter no-go condition.
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How do you calculate how you cut by these 200 meters?
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Where's the measuring tape? Excuse me, we're in the parking lot town.
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Listen, we don't have a measuring tape. We're down here.
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I'm not to say anything. Anything you seem to give out evidence against you?
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What are the exact meters, the distance, from the library square we have it right now?
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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There are a lot of arrests of peaceful political critics in Canada these days.
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Pastor Arthur Pawlowski was jailed for a month and a half for keeping his church open during the lockdowns.
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Justin Trudeau invoked martial law and had peaceful trucker protesters arrested and jailed for the sin of embarrassing him on the world stage.
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He also seized the bank accounts of hundreds of other peaceful critics of his regime.
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In his defense, he did try to warn us about his beliefs even before he was elected.
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There's a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime.
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When a politician says he admires communist China precisely because of its basic dictatorship, we should believe him.
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When Fidel Castro of Cuba died, Trudeau wrote a eulogy like a son might write about a father.
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It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba's longest serving president, as if Castro were elected again and again.
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Fidel Castro was a larger-than-life leader who served his people for almost half a century, a legendary revolutionary in order.
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In order, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation.
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Cuban healthcare is terrible, but that's like saying, well, Mussolini made the trains run on time.
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While a controversial figure, both Mr. Castro's supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people,
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who had a deep and lasting affection for El Comandante.
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Is that what his detractors say from their prison cells, the political prisoners?
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That he was just a lovable old dictator who really had their best interests at heart when he jailed them?
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Arresting peaceful protesters, deploying not riot police to stomp on your critics, seizing bank accounts, it looks awful.
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It so obviously is a political move designed to stifle political dissent.
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But if you're going to silence someone, the way to do it in 2023 is much different from how Castro did it a generation ago.
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And while his allies, as I showed you, are having noisy press conferences where they absolutely make it clear that they're all about silencing their political enemies,
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You see, the truly modern authoritarian uses the internet, not the police, to censor people wherever possible.
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When you take over the internet, there are no shocking TV images of cops beating up your opponents.
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And that's what I want to warn the world about today.
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That's the message that everyone who loves or even just likes Canada needs to know.
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Justin Trudeau has embarked on a massive legislative program to censor the internet.
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He's doing it in four stages, the first of which is about to become law within weeks.
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The first leads to the second, which leads to the third, and so on.
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If he were to do it all at once, I think people might panic and rise up.
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The first domino will fall in weeks, maybe even days.
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Later this month, Trudeau's majority in the Senate will approve Bill C-11, which amends the Broadcasting Act.
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In a way, this is the most important stage, the first domino, because until now,
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the federal government in Canada has not been able to regulate what's on the internet.
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Until now, only regular television and radio have been regulated by Trudeau and his hand-picked sensors at the CRTC.
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That's the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission.
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Anyways, that dinosaur regulator, which has been an utter failure and has driven so much talent out of Canada,
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they will now control the internet by declaring that social media companies are now broadcasters
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This enactment amends the Broadcasting Act to, among other things, add online undertakings,
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undertakings for the transmission or retransmission of programs over the internet,
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as a distinct class of broadcasting undertakings.
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See, in the past, the government could only bully radio and TV stations into silencing voices
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About 20 years ago, the Liberal government refused to renew the license of a politically
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incorrect radio station in Quebec called Chois FM, effectively killing it.
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It was only saved when 50,000 listeners marched in the streets of Quebec City,
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and another 5,000 went all the way to Ottawa to protest this censorship outside Parliament.
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I want to show you a news clip from that Parliament Hill protest. Look at this.
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His refusal to renew the license of a Quebec City radio station.
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A casual glance would tell you it's a rock concert, but another look reveals a rally for choice,
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They love their free speech, and they want to tell the governors, we like Chois, we love Chois,
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It's doubtful that so many people have ever traveled such a distance to voice their support for a radio
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station, but for much of this crowd here on the Hill today, the real issue is free speech,
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and as many as 10,000 of them have gathered here to demand loudly that the federal government
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restore Chois FM's right to be on the air, and by extension, the rights of Canadians everywhere
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We broadcast what they want, and the case is, is the CRTC and five people put there by the
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government liberal could determine what are the limits to freedom of speech we don't believe.
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Amid the shouts of Liberté, shock jock Jeff Filion, accused by the CRTC of making disparaging remarks
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They don't listen to people. They have to listen to people. They have to make law and rules for people,
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I think you would have to be a Quebecer, listening to it, because of the way we talk to each other,
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and the way everybody talks on other radio stations.
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If Chois FM's appeal to Paul Martin fails, it will pursue an appeal in federal court,
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but in all likelihood, the station will still be off the air by August the 31st.
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That is Quebec City's loss, certainly according to these fans, but there are
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controversial radio broadcasters right here in Ottawa who say they also feel the chill.
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The fact of the matter is that more and more radio stations are going to fuzzy stuff.
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They're going to lifestyle stuff. They are afraid to deal with the real issues of the day,
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because you get hung strong, put in bed, and the skin of your collective butts pulled over your head.
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That's incredible, and it was incredible to see other media support Chois FM, but these days,
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the mainstream media takes the lead in censoring and canceling voices they don't like. So,
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that's the main threat of C11. It declares that Facebook and Google and YouTube and Twitter,
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Netflix and the rest of them are broadcasters, and they have to do what the government says,
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or they'll be punished like Chois FM was. You can see the outlines of what Trudeau plans to do
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with his new powers. Look at section 9.1 called conditions, as in Trudeau can now put conditions
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on these internet companies if they're going to operate here. Let me read.
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The commission may, in furtherance of its objects, make orders imposing conditions
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on the carrying on of broadcasting undertakings that the commission considers appropriate for
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the implementation of broadcasting policies set out in subsection 3.1, including conditions
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respecting. And then there's a long list of things. If I were Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk,
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I might object to a few of these conditions, like this one, the provision to the commission
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by persons carrying on broadcasting undertakings of any other information the commission considers
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necessary for the administration of this act, including financial or commercial information,
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information related to programming, information related to expenditures, information related to
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audience measurement, other than information that would identify any individual audience member. So,
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now social media companies, including Elon Musk's privately held Twitter, may have to answer any
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private business question put to them by Trudeau. There are 16 items in this list of conditions,
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but here's the one that really worries me from a censorship point of view. It's subsection E.
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Trudeau can make orders regarding, quote, the presentation of programs and programming services
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for selection by the public, including the showcasing and discoverability
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of Canadian programs and programming services. So, Trudeau can order Twitter or Facebook or Google
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or YouTube to alter the algorithm, to interfere with what you can find. Trudeau can force social
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media companies to showcase whatever content he wants and to alter the discoverability of it. So,
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he can boost his friends and have these companies hide his enemies. I wonder what he'll do to Rebel News.
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The reality is organizations, organizations like yours, yours, that continue to spread misinformation
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and disinformation. I won't call it a media organization. Your group of individuals need to take
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accountability, polarization that we're seeing in this country. It is disappointing to see the
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conservatives engage in peddling, engage in peddling, rebel media, rebel media, conspiracy theories.
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Yeah, he really, really can't stand rebel news. I think Canadians are cluing into the fact that
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there is a really important decision we take about the kind of country we want to see. And I salute all
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extraordinary hardworking journalists that put science and facts at the heart of what they do and ask me
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tough questions every day, but make sure that they are educating and informing Canadians from a broad range
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of perspectives, which is the last thing that you guys do. See, that's the thing. Trudeau is smarter generally
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than those two transgender activists I showed you earlier. They rage at their opponents. It's so
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clear they're motivated by ideological hatred for their opponents and for the idea that anyone could
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even be allowed to oppose them. But Trudeau uses vague language and made up ideas like misinformation
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and disinformation, which is basically what he calls anyone he dislikes. And Trudeau spends tens of
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millions of dollars on activists who denounce his enemies as misinformation and disinformation.
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Now, despite his occasional relapses where he rages against rebel news, Trudeau usually stays calm on
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this file. He's going to delegate the actual censorship to his handpicked CRTC regulators and they're going to
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order social media companies to do the actual dirty work for him. And so how would the public even know?
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If they type in trucker convoy or drag queen story hour into the search engine and the first 50 results are
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CBC stories, how many Canadians would even know it was the result of a government order affecting the
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discoverability algorithm? Trudeau's regulators can simply order social media companies to make it
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impossible to find rebel news or other online critics. It's brilliant in a way. Trudeau doesn't even have
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to actually order us shut down. He doesn't have to silence us. He can just make it so no one can find us.
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No one can hear us. And they don't even know they're being kept away from us. That's C-11.
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It's terrifying on its own because it's the gateway. It effectively nationalizes social media. Now it's
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all under Trudeau's control. 16 items. So it's not just C-11. It's what comes after C-11 that's
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terrifying. Because once Trudeau has the power to regulate the internet, only then will he reveal what
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he's really going to do with it. And as we saw during the trucker convoy, he will suspend civil
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liberties if it suits him politically. So C-11 is just step one. But Trudeau already has another bill
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in parliament called C-18 or the Online News Act. And just like C-11 makes social media companies
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broadcasters for Trudeau to regulate, C-18 creates a new thing called digital intermediaries. Here's how
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that's defined in C-18. Digital news intermediary means an online communications platform,
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including a search engine or social media service that is subject to the legislative authority of
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parliament and that makes news content produced by news outlets available to persons in Canada.
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So that's a fancy way of saying any sort of search engine and social media platform that
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every social media platform has search engines, by the way. So it's not just explicit search engines
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like Google, but YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. I mean, just type it in. If you go to Google right now
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and you type in Trudeau blackface or carbon tax or whatever, the list of what shows up is what's
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regulated. It returns with a list of links for news stories, right? Just the headline, maybe the first
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sentence and a link to click if you want to see more. Now, as you know, that's how the internet works.
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Things linked to other things for free. No one has to pay for a link. No one gets paid for a link.
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People generally love getting linked to since it sends traffic to what you're doing and saying.
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If a bunch of people post a story to Facebook about a rebel news item, we like it because they
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click the link and come to our website and that's good for us. In fact, many news companies pay
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to promote themselves on search engines. Sometimes you see little ads show up in the search rankings,
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marked as ads. So obviously, if newspapers are advertising on Facebook or Google, it's because
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they see value in it. But what C18 does is it forces search engines and social media companies to pay
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any news organization that they would link to. They're literally going to be compelled
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to pay those companies to link to them. Here's how liberal MP Lisa Hefner put it.
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She said, I will always support quality fact-based and local Canadian journalism in a fair digital
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marketplace. This bill makes it harder for big digital platforms like Facebook and Google
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to steal local journalist articles and repost them without credit on one of their networks.
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Without credit. It's a link to them. Listen, I'm no fan of Facebook or Google. But linking,
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you're linking to a story. You're not stealing the story. You're just putting the headline up
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and you're sending traffic to the story. What that liberal MP just did was disinformation,
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wasn't it? But look at your language. The government will support quality fact-based
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journalism. Well, what does that mean? Well, again, it means only journalism that Trudeau likes
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will be subsidized. It's right there in the law. Let me quote,
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eligible businesses designation at the request of a news business. The commission must, by order,
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designate the business as eligible if it, A, is a qualified Canadian journalism organization
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as defined in subsection 248.1 of the Income Tax Act. Okay, that qualified Canadian journalism
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organization designation is really a Canadian news license. If you have it, it means Trudeau trusts you.
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If you don't have it, he demonizes you as misinformation. Rebel News applied for that
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QCJO status and the government reviewed hundreds of Rebel News stories and bizarrely declared that
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what we do is not news. What? It's called Rebel News. We're not about sports or weather or cooking.
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They literally said more than 99% of what we do isn't newsy. Now that's bizarre and we're legally
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appealing that decision. But it's pretty obvious why we were denied, but hard left-wing media groups
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like the Tides Foundation-backed National Observer get the designation because they're in step with
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Trudeau's regime. So C11 commandeers the internet. Let's Trudeau manipulate the algorithm. Let's him
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regulate the internet. C18 makes Facebook and Google and other search engines and social media companies
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pay money to journalists in Canada, but only to the journalists that Trudeau approves,
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not the ones he doesn't like. That's handy, isn't it?
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By the way, Facebook has said that if they're forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to link
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to Trudeau's favorite journalists, Facebook just won't link to Trudeau's favorite journalists.
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They say news is not a moneymaker for them. I believe it. And if Trudeau really thinks it's
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stealing to link to the Globe and Mail or whoever, then Facebook will stop doing it. Google is
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considering doing the same. And Trudeau calls that blocking news sites. Got it. So if you link to a
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news site, you're stealing. If you don't link to them, you're blocking them. The only solution is to
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give hundreds of millions of dollars to Trudeau's hand-picked cronies, I guess.
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Not to Rebel News. We don't have the government news license. So that's C-18. It's Trudeau's
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second censorship bill. C-36 is the third one. It was actually introduced in the last parliament,
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but it didn't get passed into law before the election was called. Trudeau has said they'll
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reintroduce it. It's terrifying because it doesn't just deal with money and algorithms and big companies
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anymore. It gets right into what you can say or can't say. And it has jail terms.
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And huge fines if you don't say the things Trudeau likes. It is targeting individual users. Let me
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read to you the formal name of C-36 and you'll get the picture. An act to amend the criminal code
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and the Canadian Human Rights Act and to make related amendments to another act, hate propaganda,
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hate crimes and hate speech. Yeah. Trudeau calls people haters all the time. Islamophobes,
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transphobes, racist, whatever. He usually just means those as insults, but now he means them as crimes.
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So if you oppose him, he'll call you names and charge you with crimes. If you don't believe me,
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read the bill just to start. Hate propaganda is already in our criminal code. I should just remind
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you. Section 318 of our criminal code already makes it a crime to advocate for genocide. Section 319
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makes it a crime already to incite hatred. But C-36 goes much further. It's a pretty short law,
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but it tries to criminalize feelings, including hate, which is human feeling. They define it. They say
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hatred means the emotion that involves detestation or vilification and that is stronger than dislike or
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disdain. They're passing emotion laws now. It's totalitarian to pass laws telling people what
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emotions they can feel or what they can think. You can't tell someone to simply turn off being upset.
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Try doing that with your wife or husband if you're arguing with them. Oh, just stop being upset.
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Try to order them not to feel bad. They'll feel worse because you're not listening to them.
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Hatred often comes from a sense of an underlying grievance. If you don't deal with that underlying
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problem in some way, you can ban hurt feelings all you like, but it won't work. In fact,
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you'll probably make people more hateful. So Trudeau has defined the feelings you're not allowed to have.
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And now they're going to ban those feelings. You see, they've decided to regulate the internet.
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They've got their bureaucrats in the CRTC regulating the internet through C-11. They're getting the big
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tech companies through C-18. But C-36 is where they really come for you. And I mean you. Let me read.
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Communication of Hate Speech, Section 13. It is a discriminatory practice to communicate or cause
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to be communicated hate speech by means of the internet or other means of telecommunication in
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a context in which the hate speech is likely to foment detestation or vilification of an individual
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or group of individuals on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination. So it's a future tense crime.
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Who knows if something will foment hate? I'm pretty sure that these activists are going to say
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everything could foment hate. These people are professionally offended all the time. It's their
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job and their hobby and their sense of identity. For the purpose of subsection one, a person who
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communicates or causes to be communicated hate speech continues to do so for as long as the hate
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speech remains public and the person can remove it or block access to it. That's in the law. That means
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if you tweeted or Facebook something years ago, even when you were a kid, you are still guilty of
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that hate crime today. There's no statute of limitations. You know, in real courts, there's
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the idea of being able to confront your accuser, to look them in the eye and challenge them,
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not in this kangaroo court. Trudeau is literally setting up a secret court. Complaints about hate
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speech can be made in secret and these secret complainants can get up to 20 grand for their
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complaints. It's a new industry. They're paying people to be upset. Let me read this. Non-disclosure of
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identity commission. The commission may deal with a complaint in relation to a discriminatory practice
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described in section 13 without disclosing to the person against whom the complaint was filed
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or to any other person, the identity of the alleged victim, the individual or group of individuals who
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has filed the complaint or any individual who has given evidence or assisted the commission in any way
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in dealing with the complaint. If the commission considers that there is a real and substantial risk
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that any of those individuals will be subjected to threats, intimidation or discrimination.
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So we got secret courts, secret witnesses, secret complaints. It could be a rival. It could be
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an ex. It could be a disgruntled former employee. It could be a political prankster. It could be a
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business. You can be sued forever endlessly and you will never know by whom and they get 20 grand a pop.
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You can be ordered to pay huge fines and order to pay compensation of not more than $20,000
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to any victim personally identified in the communication that constituted the discriminatory practice.
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But there's something in here even more amazing. The concept of pre-crimes.
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You know, like that Tom Cruise movie, Minority Report. Even if you haven't done anything yet,
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you can still be prosecuted. I'm not kidding. Let me read. Fear of hate propaganda offense or hate crime.
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Section 810-0121A. A person may, with the Attorney General's consent, lay an information before a
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provincial court judge if the person fears on reasonable grounds that another person will commit
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an offense under Section 318 or subsection 319. Those are the feelings crimes. An offense under
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subsection 430. That's mischief under the criminal code. Or an offense motivated by bias, prejudice or hate,
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based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, color, religion, sex, age, mental or physical
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disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other similar factor. So
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even if someone hasn't broken the law yet, hasn't done anything bad yet, but you think they might
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do something mean about your gender identity, you can go to court and hit them first. And if a judge says
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your fear is reasonable, he could lock up the person you're afraid of, even if that person hasn't done
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anything to you, won't do anything, will never do anything, you can still get an order issued
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against him. Do you think this just might be abused? Getting your opponents locked up before they even
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say anything? This law lets them put you under house arrest, have a curfew, have any firearms you have seized,
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put an ankle bracelet on you to monitor you, ban you from drugs or alcohol, things that normally
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only happen to convicted criminals actually did something wrong. Not to free crimes for thought
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crimes. So first there was C11 that let the government regulate the internet. Then there was
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C18 that commandeered the big tech companies in the search engines. And now there's C36, but they
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saved the worst for last. The Online Harms Act is the fourth bill. It hasn't been introduced yet in
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parliament or given a number. So C11 uses a slow and dumb bureaucracy called the CRTC. C18, same thing,
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C36 includes huge fines and jail time, but at least involves some judges. But none of those are tough
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enough or peanut enough for Trudeau. He really wants to censor the internet. So his final bill out of the
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four creates a new internet censorship office with the Orwellian name, you're not even going to believe
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this, the Digital Safety Commissioner of Canada. Hey, are you being safe online? Let me read a
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line or two about this Digital Safety Commission. This is from the government's own website.
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The act should provide for the establishment of the Digital Safety Commissioner,
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whose functions are to, and there's a list here, oversee and improve online content moderation
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by administering and enforcing obligations, engaging with and considering the particular needs of,
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and barriers faced by groups disproportionately affected by harmful online content, such as women
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and girls, indigenous peoples, members of racialized communities and religious minorities, and of LGBTQ2,
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and gender diverse communities and persons with disability, and supporting platforms and
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reducing harmful content affecting peoples in Canada, engage in partnerships, education outreach activities,
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and research to help fulfill the policy objectives of the act. So you've got an ultimate,
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unaccountable, hunter-killer to silence anything harmful. And by harmful, they mean whatever this
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censor doesn't like. They just love talking about gender equity, don't they, and gender diversity.
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So the cabinet minister who introduced this idea, his name is Stephen Gilboa, and he gives an example
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of how this could be used. Here, listen to him. Earlier, I think that Canada has a world-renowned public
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service, and it's integral that we don't attack them to try and score political points. Everybody in
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this country, and especially elected officials, have, I think, a responsibility, a duty to ensure that we
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protect our institutions, and that the last thing we should try and do is to somehow diminish them
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just in the hope that we could score points. We've seen too many examples of public officials retreating
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from public service due to the hateful online content targeted towards themselves or even their families.
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I have seen firsthand, alongside other Canadians, the damaging effects harmful content has on our families,
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our values, and our institutions. His first example is you can't criticize politicians. He just comes out and says it.
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And what power should this tyrant have? Well, he can literally delete or block any website he likes.
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Trudeau's cabinet minister actually called it the nuclear option.
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Could we envision having blocking orders? I mean, that's...
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That's... Maybe. It's not... You know, it's a... It would be... It would likely be a last-resolved
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nuclear bomb in a toolbox of mechanism for regulators.
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Oh, my God. Trudeau proposes extreme ideas like website takedowns within 24 hours. No time for any sort of real hearing.
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If Trudeau or his team don't like something, they'll just order a social media company to take it down within 24 hours,
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from some of the social media companies' letters to Trudeau worried about this.
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These were released in an access to information request.
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Now, let me emphasize, this is from Twitter before Elon Musk bought it.
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So this is when Twitter was pretty pro-censorship itself, I have to say.
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warning that this idea was literally the stuff that North Korea does.
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They actually made that comparison. Here, I'm going to read just a little bit from their letter.
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Twitter opposes the recommendation of a time limit on addressing any content flagged by any person in Canada
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as harmful content. The proposed time limit does not allow for judicious, thoughtful analysis in a
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manner that balances the right to freedom of expression in Canada with the right to freedom
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from discrimination and prejudice. According to existing research and analysis, the proposed system
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has a high probability of negatively impacting marginalized, racialized, and intersectional groups.
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More information from Professor Susie Dunn at Dalhousie University can be found here.
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The 24-hour proposal should be abandoned. Content should be addressed as quickly and as possible
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and within the scope of existing Canadian jurisprudence. Terms of service and rules
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by the online communications service providers. Further, any standard applied in the digital world
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should also be applied in real life. For example, law enforcement should be required to both launch
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an investigation within 24 hours of flagging as well as remove any hateful content, graffiti on a
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statue, for example, that appears within 24 hours across the country. She's just pointing out how
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insane, how insane the idea is. And here's Twitter comparing Trudeau's proposal to China and North Korea.
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Issue, website blocking. The proposal by the government of Canada to allow the digital safety commissioner
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to block websites is drastic. People around the world have been blocked from accessing Twitter and other
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services in a similar manner as the one proposed by Canada by multiple authoritarian governments,
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China, North Korea, and Iran, for example, under the false guise of online safety, impeding people's
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rights to access information online. Now look, my video is already too long. Frankly, it could be double
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this size. There's so much to show you. But hopefully you see the scope and scale of the problem we have in Canada.
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Four censorship bills. That's more than Trudeau has about inflation or the war in Ukraine or anything
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else. He's obsessed with censorship. And they're like dominoes, C-11, then C-18, then C-36, then the
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Online Harms Act. Each one building on the censorship of the one before him. Each one building a censorship
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regime whose only comparison in the world is places like North Korea and Iran. Trudeau has the support of the
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NDP. So these simply will become the law. And it's not like any of the mainstream media are actively
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opposing this. The opposite. They're really excited about Trudeau forcing big tech to pay the money for
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linking to them. The media have been bought off again. Canada's in trouble. Our free speech is in trouble.
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And the watchdogs who are supposed to be on guard are all sleeping. I promise that we here at Rebel
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News will do what we can. And I see that as doing three things. First of all, keeping you up to date
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on the state of censorship in Canada. So just reporting the facts. Say, have you heard about any of this
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on the CBC or the Toronto Star? Yeah, I didn't think so. Second of all, making the arguments for why this is
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morally wrong, legally wrong, impractical, and downright un-Canadian. So we'll give you the facts
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and then we'll give you the arguments. The third thing is what Rebel News does best sometimes.
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Actually stepping in and fighting the good fight. All week I've been speaking with constitutional
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lawyers about how to fight this censorship onslaught in court. Because if we don't do it, who will?
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I have commissioned an expert litigation law firm to prepare to fight these bills in court. In fact,
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we're already working on the lawsuit. We're not even waiting for the bills to be officially
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proclaimed. We're working on it now. We already know how bad they're going to be.
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We will sue Trudeau in court and hold him to the charter of rights. I know it's an uphill battle.
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We will be outspent 10 to 1. They will have a swarm of lawyers there to fight against us.
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But I know we can win because we beat him twice before on censorship fights. In 2019,
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he banned us from attending the election debates. We went to federal court and we won. He tried again
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in 2021. He banned us again. And when we sued him, he literally had seven government lawyers against us.
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But we won again. Twice we beat Trudeau on free speech against long odds. Maybe there's some hope
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left. If you want to help us, please go to stopthecensorship.ca. I think this is the battle
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of 2023. What the trucker convoy was in 2022, the internet freedom battle is this year. Help us if you
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can. Learn the facts, learn the arguments, and then help us take this Castro mini-meet to court.
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Hey, welcome back. You know, I'm still working on my anti-censorship battle. There's so many parts
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to it. And I haven't even talked about fighting the city censorship and the province level censorship.
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And then there's big tech censorship on its own. Really, I think censorship is the issue of our
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age. One of the reasons why censorship is so important for Trudeau is because it was social
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media and citizen journalism that told the truth about the truckers. All the media party was in
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lockstep. I mean, you can count on one hand's fingers, Rupert Subramania, and I think I'm done
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with the entire list of journalists in mainstream media outlets who were open-minded towards the truckers.
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The people who told the trucker story were the citizen journalists, primarily, if I may say so,
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rebel news journalists. At one point, I remember one day, we had 17 different journalists covering the
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convoy and the truckers across the country. This is when everywhere from Windsor to Ottawa to
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Coutts, Alberta, even in Vancouver, I remember. So that's why Trudeau's obsessed with censoring the
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internet. Because the internet is where all the interesting stuff is gone. Now that the regime media is so
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bland and homogenous and just parroting government talking points. Trudeau has four ways he's coming
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to get us and you. I want to work on this a little bit more. This is sort of my first attempt to put it
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all in one pot. It's about a half hour monologue. I hope you didn't find it too complicated or too
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detailed. But I want to prove to you that we have a problem and I want to go to court to fix it.
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That's the show for today. We'll be back tomorrow with a special Easter Friday edition.
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Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home,
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good night, happy Passover to those who follow it, and keep fighting for freedom.