A now-deleted post by Edmonton Police encouraging citizens to report ‘online hate’ received backlash from critics who warned Canadians about the effects of passing Bill C-9.

After a decade of Liberal government, the slow erosion of freedom of speech has escalated. The latest example of this comes from the Edmonton Police. An X post last week included a link urging people to “report online hate” with the message: “You typed it. Someone lived it. Online hate isn’t ‘just a comment.’ It hurts real people and harms real communities. Hate has no home here.”

The post immediately triggered backlash and was deleted (it can be viewed here). It included a video with examples of reportable comments.

“Some of these posts call for violence and could meet criminal threshold, but I struggle to see how most of these sample hate posts would be illegal (which is different from offensive, hurtful, uncivil, etc.),” MP Andrew Lawton wrote in response. “This is precisely the chilling effect I warned about with Bill C-9.”

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