Criminalizing Bible Verses? Canadian Lawmakers Target Religious Expression With

[Ptarmigan]

Criminalizing Bible Verses? Canadian Lawmakers Target Religious Expression With Proposed 'Hate Speech' Amendment
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/criminalizing-bible-verses-canadian-lawmakers-target-religious-expression-proposed

In a move that should alarm anyone who is pro-free speech, members of Canada’s Liberal Party have capitulated to pressure from Quebec’s ultra-secular separatist party by voting to strip away a longstanding religious exemption from the country's hate-speech laws as part of the draconian Bill C-9, also known as the so-called Combating Hate Act.

Canada’s Criminal Code has long shielded good-faith religious expression with a clear exemption that speech is not hate propaganda “if, in good faith, the person 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.”

On Tuesday evening, that protection was casually deleted at the Bloc Québécois insistence.

Canada has the enemy within, the left.

[SVPete]

I'm so old I remember Canuckians and Brits mocking the US for having a constitution that specifies key rights.

[enslaved1]

That's been the long game for a while, IMHO.

Curious if this law would apply to verses in the Quran that some interpret as antisemetic, or if Farrakhan would get arrested up there for some of his speeches and comments.  Or does it just apply to Christians calling sins sins, like homosexuality? 

[ADsOutburst]

I don't know how Canadians in general view this, but at first glance, it sounds like another case of the left getting what it wants by making the most noise.

[FlaGator]

It says a lot about Canada when one of the things they are most known for, Crown Royal, shuts down and moves to the US.

[SVPete]

Interestingly, while Crown Royal bottling is being moved to the US, the production and distilling will still be done in Canada, with facilities in Quebec and Manitoba. If it isn't produced in Canada it can't be called "Canadian Whiskey". I wonder whether production volume will shift so the Manitoba facility is the main producer. Quebec and Ontario seem inclined to be more difficult places for companies to do business.