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Oct 10, 2024 · TDF warns that Bill C-63 establishes an online speech control system that threatens free expression in Canada, and argues the government can't be trusted with such power, citing historical use of censorship by authoritarian regimes to suppress dissent.
Feb 29, 2024 · The Online Harms Act would impose severe penalties for online and offline hate speech, including life imprisonment, which is the most severe criminal punishment in Canada. This new legislation would establish a new Digital Safety Commission with power to enforce new regulations created by the federal cabinet.
Feb 27, 2024 · “It does not undermine freedom of speech,” the minister said. That statement almost certainly was aimed at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who pre-emptively rejected the bill...
Sep 30, 2024 · Bill C-63: An Act to enact the Online Harms Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Human Rights Act and An Act respecting the mandatory reporting of Internet child pornography by persons who provide an Internet service and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts.
Bill C-63 may need some work, but overall it strikes a good balance between preventing harm and preserving free speech, using a mix of regulators, criminal, and human rights measures to curb hateful and harmful content on the internet.
Mar 21, 2024 · On to the human rights question: it helps to recall that the bill reinstates the right of Canadians to file anti-discrimination complaints about hate speech to the federal Human Rights Commission, repealed by a free vote of the House of Commons in 2012.
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Mar 28, 2024 · The third part of Bill C-63 restores an offence of “Communication of Hate Speech” to the Canadian Human Rights Act. This provision is similar to the previous s. 13 of that Act, which was repealed in 2012 (a repeal supported by PEN Canada at that time ).