A proposed amendment to Canada’s criminal code regarding hate speech has some social media users claiming it would ban C
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses the Canadian Parliament before President Joe Biden speaks on March 24, 2023, in Ottawa, Canada. A Canadian bill, C-367, calls for removing religious exemptions from a section of the nation’s criminal code regarding hate speech.
Second, it proposed repealing paragraph 319, which said a person can’t be convicted for the willful promotion of antisemitism"if, in good faith, they expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text.""Mr. Speaker, gunfire has been heard in Montreal over the past few days. Windows have been broken, and graffiti has been directed specifically against the Jewish community," Blanchet said.
Moon said a Christian simply saying that homosexuality is sinful wouldn’t be considered hate speech, but saying gays are pedophiles might. "An individual would almost certainly have to be incorporating additional extreme and incendiary speech in their expression to run afoul of the law, with or without the exemptions," he said.An Instagram post claimed that Canada is passing a bill to"essentially ban the idea of Christianity."