Commentary
The next step in narrowing Canadians’ rights may be justified by a government survey that eliminated the views of anyone opposed to the government’s attempts to squelch freedom of expression.
In a hair-raising precursor of what’s likely to come in this year’s online harms legislation, it was revealed this week by Jamie Sarkonak of the National Post that Heritage Canada officials intentionally torqued a public survey measuring support for its “National Action Plan on Combatting Hate.”
They did so by inserting a screening question that disqualified anyone who didn’t agree that the government should crack down on speech of which it disapproves—including via legislation patrolling and scrubbing the pages of newspapers….