The Liberals declare war on free speech (Bill C-63)
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Summary
Justin Trudeau's new bill, Bill C-63, is a front to try and undermine free speech in Canada. In this episode, I break down exactly what the bill does and why it's a bad idea. I also talk about how the bill could have serious consequences.
Transcript
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No doubt that you've all already heard of the new bill being put forward by Prime Minister
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Justin Trudeau's Liberal government, known as the Online Harms Act, Bill C-63. Everyone knows
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it's bad. It's a front to try and undermine free speech in Canada, but I'm going to break down
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exactly how it's trying to undermine free speech. So to start us off, I just want to basically say
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what the Liberal strategy is. It's to pack this bill full of good-sounding things that nobody
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could disagree with, and then in part three of the bill, inserting their very vague definition of
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what hate speech is and discriminatory language in order to basically make it so that in the future
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they can make anything they don't like illegal to say. What they do is they pack it full at the front
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by saying we're going to crack down on child abuse content online, calls for genocide, all this stuff
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that is already illegal, and it wasn't just illegal in real life. It's always been illegal online as
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well, but they're pretending that they're somehow toughening these laws up when they've done
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nothing. They're just basically saying, well, you need to mandatorily report child abuse content
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online, which I'm pretty sure was already the case. You could just walk by that and not consider it
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something that needs to be reported. But they packed Bill C-63 full of this stuff, and then so by the
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time you get to part three, you seem like you're already somewhat on board because look at all the
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great things this bill does. And then part three also says, yeah, we can jail you for saying things
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that we think are discriminatory. Legitimately, if you say something that leads to a vague case of
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online hatred, then you could be arrested. You didn't say anything wrong, but you inspired someone
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to say something wrong, and that wrong thing really isn't wrong. It's just wrong based on a vague
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definition that the liberals have come up with on what defines hate speech. But before I get into the
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part three's text of the bill that I find the most concerning, I first want to jump over to the
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liberal, I think, justice minister, Arif Varani, presenting this bill, completely clownish justice
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minister we have now. And he's very proud of this bill, but I'll let him explain what this is all
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about. Online Harms Act does not do. It does not undermine freedom of speech. It enhances free
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expression by empowering all people to safely participate in online debate.
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Je tiens à préciser ce que le projet de loi 1663 ne fait pas. Il ne sait pas la liberté d'expression. Il renforce la liberté d'expression en permettant à toutes les personnes...
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Well, I'm going to pause him there since he's speaking French now. But, like, the idea that
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whenever the left pushes forward some restriction to your freedoms, no, this isn't actually restricting
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your free speech freedoms. It's actually enhancing your free speech and expression freedoms in Canada,
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because now you don't have to hear certain things that you don't like. Obviously, everyone is against
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legally defined harassment. If people are calling you at all hours of the night on your phone,
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if people are sending you death threats, if people are actively trying to, like, you know,
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dox you, that's illegal. It's always been illegal. But the liberals are pretending that that stuff wasn't illegal so they can slip through
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these sort of, like, vague definitions of what hate speech is so that they can say, well, you disagreed with the gender theory
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ideology? Well, that's hate speech, so you've got to go to prison. Oh, also, you questioned gender theory?
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Well, that's discriminatory language. You used discriminatory language while you were deposing us
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on this, like, piece of legislation. That's hateful. You're going to lead to harm to people.
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You're going to have to go to prison. So much of the liberals cracking down on our freedoms is always justified
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under the guise that people will die, people will be harmed unless we do this, as if we've been in the middle
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of a long-time crisis, and that they're finally having to pass this legislation to save people.
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Nothing really bad has happened in our kind of current version of the internet, where people can
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kind of do mostly what they want outside of obviously illegal things. Yet the liberals always
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have these secret people that are vulnerable to these harms unless they pass legislation right now.
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You have more power because I guess apparently the liberals are going to let you report people you
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don't like, so you have the power to potentially have them hauled in front of a court and put into
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prison. 63, this bill does not wade in to your private communications. Private communications are
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exempted from this legislation. We know that there are powerful organizations and people who may line
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up against this legislation. Because it's dumb. People with money and people with influence. My message
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to these people and these organizations is very simple. It is now the time to work directly with us.
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Profit cannot be prioritized over safety. Right now it is too easy for social media companies
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to look the other way as hate and exploitation festers on their platforms. This bill will require
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platforms to do their part and to do better to keep people safe from harm and exploitation,
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especially our children. Failure to do so will have a price. Significant monetary penalties.
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And this is where this bill is absolutely insane. Effectively what the liberals want is that they want
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like auditors, ombudsmen being appointed to be able to look over the social media companies,
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you know, back ends. They want to be able to see what's being posted. They want to hold them
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accountable if anything bad has ever been posted. Effectively turning social media platforms into social
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media publishers. That now the platforms are responsible for every single thing that you post,
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as if you're an author for their website. You know what? If someone says something rude on the
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internet, I don't think that should be Facebook or Twitter's fault. X, I guess. But that is not the
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fault of a platform. If something illegal is posted, yes, the Facebook or X would have the responsibility
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to take it down. But it has to be something actually illegal, not something vaguely rude that a judge is
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for some reason going to rule as hate speech and put someone in prison for four years. But this is
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effectively a way of trying to club the social media platforms into not allowing things to be posted
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that go after, like, quote unquote, going after groups that are kind of protected liberal minorities.
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And when I say that, I mean in the sense that the liberals are just going to define any criticism of
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themselves, their agenda, as attacking a specific minority group. Ergo, it's hateful or discriminatory,
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and the platforms need to take it down or be subject to a heavy fine. In this environment,
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do you think Facebook's going to let any Canadians on their platform, any X is going to let anyone on
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their platform from Canada, when the government is basically requiring them to spend hundreds of
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thousands, if not millions of dollars to monitor everything Canadians do just in case it's going to
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be subject to a criminal like charge? It's absolutely insane.
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This legislation does not come out of a vacuum.
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Yeah, I know. It does come out of the sucking stupidity of the liberal government.
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It doesn't come out of nowhere. It comes from fascists in the government who don't like people
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All of us standing here today know that it is a result of years, literally years of hard work,
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research and consultation with stakeholders, with experts, with international partners,
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What international partners? Can people stop consulting international partners? We're in
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Canada. If you're not consulting Canadians, you're doing something wrong.
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We're concerned about the well-being of their families, their neighbours and their communities.
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The message that all of those people have sent to us is loud and it is unequivocal. Doing nothing
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That's such a pathetic way of talking about your legislation. We can't do, sit by and do nothing.
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That's not an option. It actually is. Have you seen online platforms actually cause significant
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harm in the past 10 years? Not really. Not really. Like there's some social harms. You know,
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people are ruder to each other. You get some misinformation spreading on social media.
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Can't help that. Used to happen in real life as well. Still does. The idea is that, well, you can't,
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this is the only thing we can do. You can do other things. You can not do this actually.
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But the Liberals' agenda is always predicated on the idea that it must be done or bad things will
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happen. People will die. Blood is on your hands if you do nothing. And, you know, this RF guy is a
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complete clown. I guess he never consulted anyone who knew what a block feature was. And I say this as
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someone who gets death threats. I'm not like someone who's like only people only say nice
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things about me on social media. People say pretty hateful things if not send death threats to me on
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social media. And guess what? I've never felt the need to call the cops. Maybe that will happen
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someday. That doesn't mean I want the social media platforms regulated so that everything people post
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must be then cleared by them first. We join allies like the United Kingdom, France, Germany,
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Australia, who have also legislated in this area. We have learned from their experiences.
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If you learn from their experiences, you find out that the populations of those countries
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find this to be ridiculously authoritarian. We have people getting arrested in these countries for
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saying just like conservative things online. Well, you said something about, you know, pride flags being
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flown during whatever month and that it was seemed very gratuitous and obnoxious to you. You said
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that, you know, whatever about whatever group when it was just like a political opinion, people get
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arrested for stuff like that in the United Kingdom. It's insane. You cannot tolerate anarchy on the
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internet. The cost is too great. Can you say what the cost is? And if you just say one person once
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committed suicide, I'm going to say that's not the reason that you do put in massive regulatory states
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in place on social media. If someone dying from something required us to then legislate that thing
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as hard as possible, there wouldn't be an aspect of your life that wasn't government managed and
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regulated. The safety, the mental health, and even the lives of our kids and our most vulnerable are at
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stake. I'm confident with the Online Harms Act in law, we can build safe online communities where our kids
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can flourish, where illegal hate is contained, and where citizens... Illegal hate. And I'm going to
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get to what he defines as legal, illegal hate, which is vague nonsense.
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...can fully engage in rigorous debate without fear of being targeted by threats, by violence,
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or by hatred. This work is just beginning. It is a long path ahead, and I have no doubt there will be
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challenges. But I believe, along with the people standing right behind me, that this cause is worth
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it. Well, hopefully there's a lot of legal challenges from liberty organizations, from, you know,
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free speech organizations. This bill is absolutely insane. I'm going to read you the part three of this,
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which is really what they're trying to get across the finish line. It's, I think this part two, but they
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say under this section C, I'm not putting it up on the screen. I don't feel the need to right now.
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They said that it defines hatred for the purposes of the new offense and the hate propaganda offenses,
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and increases the maximum sentence for hate propaganda offenses. And this is what it says
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under part three of what it does. Part three amends the Canadian Human Rights Act to provide that it is
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a discriminatory practice to communicate or cause it to be communicated hate speech by means of the
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internet or any other means of telecommunications in a context which the hate speech is likely to
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foment detestation or vilification of an individual group or individuals on the basis of a prohibited
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ground of discrimination. It authorizes the Canadian Human Rights Commission to deal with complaints
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alleging that discriminatory practices and authorizes the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to inquire in such
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complaints on other remedies. That's insane. It is, it is literally just detestation or vilification.
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Once if someone's doing something bad, is it wrong for me to detest or vilify pedophiles? Am I allowed to
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detest, you know, people who spread violent communist rhetoric? Am I allowed to detest them online? I think I
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shouldn't be able to. And I don't think that feelings are something that the government should be trying
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to determine that you, like, if you have it, like, if you have a negative feeling towards someone in a
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high enough capacity that they can then haul you in front of the Human Rights Commission and then charge
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you with an offense that could potentially put you in jail. That's insane. This should not be ever,
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this should, this is a disgrace to parliament that it's even being put forward. And I hope the
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Mloc Québécois and the NDP are not so foolish that they're going to go along with this just in case
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the liberals might trigger an election. Have some backbone and actually oppose people who are
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cracking down on the liberties of Canadians. This is effectively trying to say whatever the Human
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Rights Commission, whatever the Minister of Justice or whatever prosecutor thinks is hateful is now
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allowed to be prosecuted. Because even in this, they don't, they don't actually provide a definition
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of hate because that would be something they'd have to stick to. They want it to be very vague so they
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can turn this bill into something that they can target conservatives or anyone they disagree with
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at different times based on different contexts. They need it to be nice and vague so that during
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an election cycle that they could potentially have people arrested or charged for saying things that
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are anti-liberal. Anyways, that should be it for me today. Again, I've said this in other videos,
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in a future video, probably also going to be talking about the Online Harms Act in the future,
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but this was just a general overview. I'll definitely talk about it in live streams as well as break down
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individual aspects of it or very ridiculous defenses that I know Liberal Party
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influencers are going to put on for this bill. Anyways, have a great day, everyone, and I'll be back later.