Stand on Guard with David Krayden - May 09, 2023


TAKE 5： Trudeau’s internet censorship only just begun (SOGTAKE5 ep2)


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Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

136.24367

Word count

1,084

Sentence count

77


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Online safety legislation is on the horizon, and it s going to have a devastating effect on freedom of speech and freedom of the press in Canada. This is a take 5 short episode where we talk about the dangers of liberal censorship and what we need to do about it.

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00:00:01.000 So we are in a very precarious position in this country.
00:00:05.620 We need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
00:00:19.040 Hi, welcome back to Stand on Guard with David Creighton.
00:00:22.760 This is another one of our shorts, our five minutes.
00:00:25.840 This is a take five. This is a take five short, and this is where we talk about one particular issue.
00:00:35.660 So let's take five, and let's talk about liberal censorship.
00:00:39.300 That's what the liberal government is doing in this country.
00:00:41.960 There's a bill on the horizon. It hasn't yet been numbered, but it's been named.
00:00:47.220 It's the online safety bill, and this is going hand in hand with Bill C-11 and Bill C-28.
00:00:53.740 And I think it's extremely important that we look at these things.
00:00:58.880 Now, C-11 has already been passed.
00:01:01.600 It's going to make it harder to find videos.
00:01:03.560 It's going to suppress the popularity of videos, hurt creators' revenues.
00:01:07.160 This is all about so-called Canadian content.
00:01:09.920 And this is going to have a very, very widespread consequence for a lot of people, a lot of people in this industry.
00:01:22.600 But we're basically talking about, you know, three kinds of bills.
00:01:28.760 You know, if we can see them here.
00:01:31.420 Yeah.
00:01:31.900 So we already have the Online Streaming Act, which is passed.
00:01:35.940 This is kind of the Canadian content bill.
00:01:38.440 What's coming up next is Bill C-18.
00:01:42.040 This is essentially, I call it the Internet extortion bill,
00:01:46.760 because it's going to force big social media outlets to pay news agencies for use of stories.
00:01:59.240 Now, a lot of news agencies, the big media outlets like this,
00:02:03.760 because they know they can afford the legal and the litigation that's going to go before this actually takes place at media outlets.
00:02:15.620 So they're enthused about this.
00:02:18.380 Like I know Post Media has already said that they want this to happen.
00:02:21.600 But new media doesn't, because they really can't afford to litigate.
00:02:26.940 And so it's going to have a very, very bad effect.
00:02:30.360 And the one that's coming, though, this is the one, if you think it's bad now,
00:02:35.980 if you think Trudeau has already come down hard on freedom of speech in this country,
00:02:41.760 the online safety bill is going to be absolutely catastrophic.
00:02:47.380 Now, I wrote a column this week in Human Events about this,
00:02:53.020 and we are really way ahead on the power curve on this.
00:02:56.940 We're ahead of media, with the exception of at least one other independent media,
00:03:00.900 new media that's going after the story.
00:03:03.220 But very few people in the national mainstream media are even acknowledging this is a problem.
00:03:10.780 And even in new media, people aren't aware that this next bill is on the horizon.
00:03:15.500 It was once named Bill C-36, and it was not passed because it was introduced just as Parliament recessed in June 2021.
00:03:27.600 And then, of course, there was a fall election.
00:03:29.320 So the bill died on the order table.
00:03:32.500 It's being resurrected by this time, not the Justice Minister,
00:03:37.520 but the Heritage Minister as part of this whole Internet onslaught,
00:03:41.300 this attack on freedom of speech by Justin Trudeau.
00:03:44.100 It's very dangerous.
00:03:45.540 Why is it very dangerous?
00:03:47.180 Because it's going to talk about some very controversial matters that are integral,
00:03:55.980 key to free speech in this country.
00:03:58.500 It's going to ban disinformation and hate speech.
00:04:04.980 Now you say, what exactly is that?
00:04:06.600 And that's the very problem with this bill, is it doesn't define either hate speech or disinformation.
00:04:15.720 In fact, it says it can't define disinformation because that would be problematic.
00:04:21.100 So therefore, we are left with the government deciding what is hate speech and what is disinformation.
00:04:27.200 That can mean virtually anything.
00:04:30.000 But it's going to mean subject matter, areas of interest that are contrary to the public policy of this liberal Trudeau government.
00:04:39.920 It is going to help Trudeau clamp down even further on free speech.
00:04:44.600 You don't like something Trudeau does, it becomes hate speech.
00:04:48.340 You report the news objectively, that becomes disinformation if it doesn't sync with what the talking points of the liberal party are.
00:04:56.220 Now, this is going to be a huge problem for Canadians.
00:05:00.400 And we have got to acknowledge this.
00:05:02.960 We've got to acknowledge that this is going to be a huge problem.
00:05:07.100 Now, at the Liberal Convention, I want to also bring this up.
00:05:11.500 The Liberals brought up a story.
00:05:16.560 What they're really mad about is that the Globe and Mail published a story based on a whistleblower source within CSIS.
00:05:23.240 They did not name that source because obviously that person not only fears for his job, but potentially his life.
00:05:30.000 This is a very serious matter.
00:05:33.000 And as I pointed out previously, this is going to be absolutely devastating.
00:05:39.580 And I want to point to the work of a law professor at the University of Ottawa, Michael Geist, who has who fought Bill C-36.
00:05:51.100 And he's gearing up to fight this legislation, this online safety legislation, because it is nothing less than the muzzling of a free press, the muzzling of a free Internet in this country.
00:06:03.500 And very few people, as I said, are fighting this.
00:06:07.080 But thank God, some people are.
00:06:09.940 I want to have Professor Geist on my show in the next few weeks to discuss this, because this, I think, is the most important issue facing Canada right now.
00:06:19.060 Are we going to have the freedom to continue to criticize this government?
00:06:23.320 Are we going to have the freedom to voice our opinions without the government telling us we're voicing disinformation or hate speech?
00:06:30.900 We have got to rev up to fight this battle.
00:06:35.200 As I've said before, resolve to resist.
00:06:39.160 Fight back.
00:06:40.060 Get the facts and fight back.
00:06:42.420 Read the column that's in Human Events this week that I've already cited.
00:06:47.000 Read everything you can about this bill, because it is going to decimate our ability to speak freely in this country.
00:06:55.960 I think this is the issue of the hour.
00:06:57.640 And we have got to do something about this.
00:07:01.860 And if we don't, we're going to be losing our freedom in this country.
00:07:07.300 So for Stand on Guard with David Crayton, I'm David Crayton.
00:07:12.360 This has been a take five moment.
00:07:14.740 I want you to take more than five to consider the dangers to free speech in this country and exactly where we are going.
00:07:22.540 If we don't consider where we're going, we're not going to have a future.
00:07:27.400 We'll be right back.