Trudeau wants to kill your free speech online. Act now to stop his internet censorship bill!
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Since all the Senate’s amendments to Bill C-11 have been rejected, senators must refuse to pass it.
(Campaign Life Coalition) — The Trudeau Liberals must be worried. Why else would they be pushing so hard for internet censorship? Do they realize their radical agenda can’t hold up under scrutiny?
When exposed to the light of truth in a free and open forum, Liberal policies on abortion, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, transgenderism, and recreational drugs all fall flat. Their anti-life, anti-family, anti-God ideology is like a house built on sand: it’s sure to fall when tested and challenged. That is why, I believe, they have resorted to a classic tactic employed by every dictator and tyrant throughout history: “If you can’t beat them, ban them!”
This is what their Internet Censorship Bill (C-11) is all about: a ban on internet free speech. Trudeau’s gang is so anxious to muzzle criticism and discussion, they even banned debate on this bill in the House of Commons.
On March 30, the Trudeau Liberals shut down debate on the twelve amendments brought forward by the Senate to try to fix Bill C-11. The Senate had listened to months of testimony from witnesses deeply concerned about Bill C-11. Professors, journalists, filmmakers, creative artists, legal experts, business leaders, and even former CRTC officials all testified against the bill.
The Senate wisely sought to incorporate these concerns in their twelve amendments. And though we would prefer they had simply axed the bill, at least it was a step in the right direction.
However, soon after those twelve amendments landed in the House of Commons for debate, the Trudeau Liberals moved to close all discussion and send the original, unmodified bill back in the Senate’s face for rubberstamping. It was an arrogant and tone-deaf move.
In response, Conservative MP Rachel Thomas called out the government’s bully tactics in Parliament:
I find this rather interesting because, really, Bill C-11 is a censorship bill, so we have a government that has moved a censorship bill and now is moving censorship on that censorship bill. Let us talk about a government very committed to censorship; it not only wants to censor what Canadians can see, hear and post online through Bill C-11, but the government also wants to censor us as opposition members in our ability to speak to the bill.
Now that Bill C-11 is back in the Senate, we have one last chance to put a stop to it.
Since all the Senate’s amendments have been rejected and the Trudeau Liberals have made it clear they will tolerate no changes to the bill, senators have only two options: they can rubberstamp the bill, or they can refuse to pass it as it is.
It is very rare for the Senate to reject a bill passed by the House of Commons, but it is not unprecedented. It can happen.
As the chamber of “sober second thought,” with members representing Canada’s ten provinces and three territories, the Senate is obliged to act as a check-and-balance on excesses in the House of Commons. Saying “No” to internet censorship would be a rightful exercise of their constitutional authority.