The Carney government is moving to tweak Canada’s hate speech laws so that biblical scripture could qualify as criminal hate speech.
The Criminal Code currently prescribes jail terms of up to two years for “willful promotion of hatred.” However, there is an exemption if that statement is a “good faith” opinion “based on a belief in a religious text.”
But Bill C-9 — the Carney government’s first major justice bill — is looking to remove the religious exemption for hate speech. It’s a reform that the Bloc Québécois has been seeking since 2023, primarily to make it easier to prosecute Islamists.
Prosecute Islamists? Well intentioned maybe but unlikely to translate into reality.
Christians will almost certainly face far more prosecutions than either Islam or Judaism.
The militant gays, trannies, liberal-left and DEI acolytes are salivating.
