Canadian Opposition Leader Poilievre Blasts Trudeau’s Proposed ‘Online Harms’ Bill
Labels PM a ‘Hate Speech’ Racist for Using ‘Blackface’ Multiple Times
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As you know, the Conservatives a decade ago repealed section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which the liberals have talked about reintroducing – and tried to in the last parliamentary term.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.