Published February 21, 2024
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has come out blazing against the government’s forthcoming ‘online harms legislation,’ a bill designed to combat ‘hate speech,’ ‘terrorist content’ and some violent material on the internet.
Poilievre said he won’t accept Trudeau’s ‘woke authoritarian agenda,’ and the prime minister and his government shouldn’t be deciding what constitutes ‘hate speech’ online, and called the legislation an ‘attack on freedom of expression.’
The greatest irony, he stated, is that Trudeau is himself someone who used several times ‘black face’ costumes, something considered to be very racist in our days.
Reporter: The federal government has said that its online harms bill is imminent. They’ve said this bill will include among other things, a ban on so-called online hate speech.
As you know, the Conservatives a decade ago repealed section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which the liberals have talked about reintroducing – and tried to in the last parliamentary term.
Will the Conservatives oppose the reintroduction of these provisions and the liberals approach to so called online hate speech?
Poilievre: Yes, we will oppose Justin Trudeau’s latest attack on freedom of expression.
And I want to ask, what does Justin Trudeau mean when he says – when he says – the word hate speech, he means speech [that] he hates.
So for example, let’s go through some of the things he said is hate speech.
Jerry Botts, the PMO Puppet Master, said that it was hate speech to criticize Trudeau for using the ridiculous term ‘people kind’, right.
Justin Trudeau said anyone who criticized him during the pandemic was engaging in hate speech.
Basically, anybody who disagrees with his radical agenda when it comes to kids, he says is hate speech. He attacked Muslim parents who are protesting against his agenda.
Is he going to criminalize those Muslim parents for protecting their Children in schools?
Go down the list of things that Justin Trudeau disapproves of. And you can imagine all of the things that will be criminalized.
Then it becomes the question of who is going to be in charge of determining what is hate speech.
Recently a school board in Ontario banned Anne Frank’s books. Ok? So, would that be considered hate speech under Justin Trudeau’s woke authoritarian agenda? I think it would.
So anyone who thinks that speech they don’t like is going to be criminalized and therefore the bill should be supported – those people should go through the list of their own thoughts that Justin Trudeau considers to be unacceptable views and you can assume that he will ban all of that as well.
“And finally, I point out the irony that someone who spent the first half of his adult life as a practicing racist, who dressed up in hideous racist costumes so many times he says he can’t remember them all, should then be the arbiter of what constitutes hate.
What he should actually do is look into his own heart and ask himself why he was such a hateful racist.”
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Trudeau should ‘look into his own heart and ask himself why he was such a hateful racist,’ Poilievre says
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre said nobody should take lessons on hate from a prime minister who wore blackface and racist costumes in the past. (Christinne Muschi/Canadian Press)
Published February 21, 2024
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday his party is vehemently opposed to the government’s forthcoming online harms legislation, a bill designed to combat hate speech, terrorist content and some violent material on the internet.
Saying he won’t accept “Justin Trudeau’s woke authoritarian agenda,” Poilievre said the prime minister and his government shouldn’t be deciding what constitutes “hate speech” online and called the legislation an “attack on freedom of expression.”
“Justin Trudeau said anyone who criticized him during the pandemic was engaging in hate speech,” Poilievre said, citing Trudeau’s COVID-era comment that trucker convoy protesters were “a small fringe minority” who were “holding unacceptable views.”
The Liberal government has touted the legislation as a way to rein in online abuse and force social media companies to do a better job of policing platforms where degrading content is a regular feature of the user experience.
Poilievre said that as far as his caucus is concerned, the bill is dead on arrival.
“What does Justin Trudeau mean when he says the words ‘hate speech’? He means the speech he hates,” Poilievre said. “You can assume he will ban all of that.”
Poilievre also framed his opposition in deeply personal terms, saying Trudeau is not the leader to legislate on this issue.
He said no one should take lessons on hate from a prime minister who once wore blackface and racist costumes.
“I point out the irony that someone who spent the first half of his adult life as a practicing racist, who dressed up in hideous racist costumes so many times he says he can’t remember them all, should then be the arbiter of what constitutes hate. What he should actually do is look into his own heart and ask himself why he was such a hateful racist,” Poilievre said.
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SOURCE: www.cbc.ca
RELATED: Online harms bill coming as soon as next week, will focus on safety: Trudeau
Published February 21, 2024
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising that his government’s upcoming bill to legislate against online harms will focus on making the internet safer for minors, while not censoring it for the rest of Canadians.
Speaking in Edmonton, Trudeau announced the Liberals will table the long-promised legislation as soon as next week, adding in French that it could come in several weeks.
Members of Parliament are currently on a break week. The House of Commons is scheduled to resume on Monday for one week, then not again until mid-March.
Trudeau characterized the legislation as having been difficult to write because of the need to strike the right balance between protecting Canadians’ freedom of expression and instituting measures to better protect children.
He vowed the bill would be “very specifically focused on protecting kids and not on censoring the internet.”
“Kids are vulnerable online to hatred, to violence, to being bullied, to seeing and being affected by terrible things online,” said Trudeau.
“We need to do a better job as a society of protecting our kids online the way we protect them in schoolyards, in our communities, in our homes across the country.”
