Free speech could soon be a thing of the past in Trudeau’s Canada

BY MICHAEL THOMAS

Canada’s Liberal Government seems hell-bent on trampling the rights of Canadians with no retreat, no surrender. It’s been almost three years since Canadians first saw the real fangs of their government, and now the rest of the Liberal government’s teeth are out in full view.

Several bills are in the works that could remove more of Canadians’ freedoms.

Let us have a look at these bills and what these bills mean. These are being rammed through parliament as we speak, and more importantly, while we are intentionally distracted by the Ukraine, Russia narrative.

Bill C-11 regulates the Internet under the CRTC and paves the way toward institutionalized content moderation, the requirement for licenses to publish online, and regulation of user-generated content in the senate.

Bill C-36 the Online Harms Bill sought to designate political dissent as “hate speech” and invoked penalties for criticizing politicians.

Bill C-18 throws a funding lifeline to Canada’s flailing agitprop industry (a.k.a the mainstream media), in that it will require tech platforms to pay licensing fees for content the media outlets post there (passed third reading in November). This bill will reward big media like Bell while freezing out small and independent organizations.

Now that we have identified these bills let’s look a bit closer at the real meaning in layman’s terms.

Bill C-36 would mean that journalists like us here at Toronto Caribbean Newspaper who take news reporting seriously and call out politicians on wrongdoing would be viewed as enemies of the state and will face unknown penalties, like China.

Bill C-11 basically would give the government total control over all media content and more importantly over what Canadians can access or post online; the government would be able to treat us as three-year-olds. Do you want this??

Bill C- 18 will ensure that small independent media disappears.

Wait a minute, I almost forgot Bill C-26. The new bill is ostensibly a cyber-security and critical infrastructure bill. Here are some of the treats, Mr. Trudeau’s government has in store for Canadians.

This bill effectively subjects Canada’s telecom and internet sectors to the whim of unelected bureaucrats and political functionaries, and the legislation grants them the power to order a telecommunications service provider “to do or not do anything.”

The bill also has room to levy monetary penalties for those who refuse to comply with the liberal government orders, it provides for the exchange of your information between relevant parties, it also authorizes enforcement of obligations under the act and consequences for those who disobey.

The penalties for non-compliance are onerous: $1 million per day for individuals and $15 million per day for any other entity.

Under this bill, orders are given in secret. A telecommunications service provider can be ordered to cut off any user (including another TSP) while being barred from even informing the entity that it’s happening, or why.

If all this becomes reality Canadians can expect their government to allow warrantless entry into places of business, or private homes, to search, copy or remove anything they deem relevant, and this includes documents or telecommunications equipment.

Imagine a bill that permits the government to share data with foreign entities, and it could all be done without any of the privacy safeguards most citizens think they have. Yes, C-26 is exactly such a bill.

This should serve as a stern warning to Canadians that if a government is willing to

un-bank you without any recourse or due process, just ask yourself how far this same government will be willing to go to remove your internet access under the disguise of hate speech or misinformation.

When a bill that has the potential of erasing the human rights of Canadians can pass its third reading with a vote of Yes’s 43 and Nay’s 15, this proves that Klaus Schwab never lied when he said, “Canada’s parliament has been penetrated.”