Commentary
Canada’s first wave of internet speech regulation was poised to pass in the Senate this week but not before it was rhetorically demolished by one of the nation’s leading authors.
“The idea of any hierarchical politico deciding what a man or woman is allowed to write to fit a proscribed national agenda is a horrid thing,” Sen. David Richards, a Liberal appointee from New Brunswick, told the Senate during third reading of Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act.
Sen. David Richards
“I am wondering if anyone on the staff of our Minister of Canadian Heritage understands this. In Germany, it was called the National Ministry for Public Enlightenment, and every radio station was run by Joseph Goebbels—complete ideological manipulation in the name of national purity.”…