The Liberals are eager to talk about regulating speech online – but wisely reluctant to actually do it
The Trudeau government’s plan to go after digital hate speech under the Canadian Human Rights Act, and giving the power to investigate and regulate it to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, is fraught with problems.
Those fears were well founded. In one famous case, the Canadian Human Rights Commission investigated a complaint about a 2006 Maclean’s magazine article titled The Future Belongs to Islam. Subsequent reports commissioned by the CHRC suggested fixes, such as allowing the commission to quickly dismiss unfounded complaints, and to assign costs for abuses. Better yet wasto leave the prosecution of hate crimes to the criminal justice system – Crown prosecutors, judges and real courts. That is what ultimately happened, and that is what the Liberals now want to change.
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