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Canadians: Send an urgent message to legislators urging them to stop Trudeau’s ‘Online Harms Act’
(LifeSiteNews) –– A Canadian legal group has warned that a Liberal government bill seeking to further clamp down on online speech will “weaponize” the nation’s courts to favor the ruling federal party and do nothing but create an atmosphere of “fear.”
The warning came from the freedom-orientated legal group The Democracy Fund (TDF), which released a 26-page long legal brief going over just how dangerous the Trudeau government’s Online Harms Act, or Bill C-63, is.
“Historically, the power to censor has been a weapon of authoritarian regimes. This power inevitably expands and eventually eliminates the civic process by which society adapts and progresses,” observed TDF in the legal brief.
TDF said it has no “reason to believe this will not happen in Canada.”
“It will not reduce social conflict. On the contrary: it is likely to exacerbate the problem of social conflict, weaponize the courts and the human rights tribunal for political purposes, and introduce fear into the online social environment,” noted TDF.
TDF asserted that as “disturbing as expressions
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