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Canadians are being urged to contact their senators to urge them to vote no.
(LifeSiteNews) – Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said Monday that he wants to rush through a bill this fall that would target free speech by banning certain legal internet content.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Mendicino said that he would push to pass the new internet censorship bill as soon as “possible” once MPs return to Canada’s parliament this fall.
However, Mendicino offered no timeline as to when te yet-to-be-seen bill would be introduced.
“I know that Minister Rodriguez is very eager to bring forward this legislation,” Mendicino said.
“And others (Rodriguez and Attorney General David Lametti) within our government are very eager to take the feedback they have received,” he said.
Mendicino claimed that the new bill would “ensure that people can have robust free speech.”
However, he then noted that the bill would “also delineate some clear boundaries on what is not acceptable.”
The fact is, Canada has had fairly robust laws against hate speech since the 1970 amendments to the Criminal Code.
This has not stopped Canada’s federal government from targeting law-abiding, day-to-day users of the internet.
Last summer, Canada’s federal government released plans to create a “Digital Safety Commissioner” who would have the power to shut down websites deemed a threat to “democracy” and to promote content deemed “harmful.”