
Mark Carney’s Liberal government wants to control everything. With Bill C-9, they seek to remove the religious exemption for prosecutable hate speech; MP Marc Miller specifically cited Bible passages as examples. With Bill C-16, they could open the door to criminalizing conversations between family members after the fact.
The new Bill C-16 (not the 2017 bill of the same name, which prohibited “hate speech” on the grounds of “gender identity and expression” and made Dr. Jordan Peterson famous) has been titled the “Protecting Victims Act,” and was introduced by the Liberals in the 45th Parliament. It has not attracted much attention, but as MP Leslyn Lewis recently highlighted, it may have far-reaching effects.



When he was the television critic of this newspaper, Alan Coren published a collection of his columns under the title Golfing for Cats, with a giant swastika on the cover. His work mentioned none of the three. Coren knew such words sold books, so set out to mock the tricks of a wordsmith’s trade. At the time, this was a joke about human editors gaming human instincts.





