The following is a replay of an ’emergency discussion’ on the legislation in Canada called bill C-9.
There is a great deal of information out there on this. We ourselves have done interviews with John Carpay on this, the head of the JCCF which is one of the last remaining effective individual rights law firms in Canada. And in this meeting video below, the concerns are addressed which one would expect. Also a new issue has appeared. The state appears to be limiting debate on it. Clearly the state wants this legislation to pass quickly and with as little discussion as possible. Knowing the dialectically named, ‘Conservative’ Party they will probably get their way.
We have our own analysis on this. But first, the meeting video:
John Carpay on this and other authoritarian bills from October 3rd, 2025
The following is essentially stream of consciousness and going from memory. There will be errors in the details. But the thesis is not dependant on the accuracy of each detail.
Some years ago, hate-speech legislation was passed in Canada.
Here are the specifics and sequence of events that I think add a proper perspective to this issue:
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2004–2005: The Liberal government of Paul Martin introduced Bill C250, adding sexual orientation to the hate-propaganda sections of the Criminal Code.
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2004: Stephen Harper (then opposition leader) supported an amendment clarifying that expressing opinions based on religious texts would not by itself constitute hate propaganda.
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June 2004: Bill C-250 passed Parliament, extending existing hate-propaganda law protections to sexual orientation.
““For greater certainty, no person shall be convicted of an offence under this section solely for expressing or attempting to establish by argument an opinion on a religious subject.””
Was the exception clause.
Frankly I am not 100% sure how this fits in. The real issue is that Muslims in Canada break existing hate speech laws EVERY DAY and no charges ever happen. In the exceptionally important movie, made by a Danish American film maker, Michael Hanson, he interviews a Montreal Islam watcher, Marc Lebuis, who attempted to take an Imam who was blatantly inciting hatred against Jews, women, non-Muslims in written and published, spoken in public sermons and broadcast on the internet forms to the Quebec Human Rights Commission. Not even a real court! Just the HRC and they refused to take the case.
“Islamophoboes” though…
So anyone who thinks more hate speech legislation will make ANYTHING better should go back to their Hopium pipes. These laws are to destroy what little liberty the rest of us have.
Marc appears 32 minutes into the film, presented in full below.
