Anyone who cares about freedom of expression in Canada was given a glaring example this week of how unfree speech could become.
For instance, I said the changes were being made to rapidly increase Canada’s annual intake of refugees without parliamentary approval. The IRB, meanwhile, insisted its rule changes were purely innocent – merely attempts to make the refugee determination process more inclusive.You could argue my interpretation was wrong and the IRB’s was right, but that’s a matter of opinion, not a matter of fact versus misinformation.
Thankfully, both tech giants refused to do as the government demanded. The column stayed online and we only learned of the IRB’s efforts to spike it last week when the Liberals included it in a list of nearly 200 attempts they had made to control social media content between 2020 and this year.
Instead, once C-11 is law, the Liberals will be able to hand over complaints like the one against my column to a group of their own appointees who share the same ideological biases and worry as much as the government that people with differing opinions must be silenced because they constitute a threat to our institutions.
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