Commentary
Canada’s Liberal government has been focused for some time now on finding ways to regulate the internet. The Department of Canadian Heritage, in particular, has targeted online content and what it believes should be classified as hate speech.
Based on the recent controversy surrounding the hiring of an anti-racist consultant who turned out to be anything but, maybe Ottawa should clean its own house first.
Then-heritage minister Steven Guilbeault introduced Bill C-10, or An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts, on Nov. 3, 2020. It was an attempt to regulate online speech through the auspices of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Opposition parties on the right and left simultaneously pushed back against these draconian measures to limit free expression. Many Canadians sided with them, too….