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 \u201creport online hate\u201d with the message: \u201cYou typed it. Someone lived it. Online hate isn\u2019t \u2018just a comment.\u2019 It hurts real people and harms real communities. Hate has no home here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The post immediately triggered backlash and was deleted (it can be viewed here). It included a video with examples of reportable comments.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome 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.),\u201d MP Andrew Lawton wrote in response. \u201cThis is precisely the chilling effect I warned about with Bill C-9.\u201d<\/p>\n
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