Canada’s Trudeau government introduces Online Harms Bill C-63, granting police authority to retroactively scour the internet for ‘hate speech’ violations and arrest offenders, irrespective of when the offense occurred. Critics decry the Orwellian nature of the law, emphasizing its potential to weaponize past speech under today’s standards, with historians like Dr. Muriel Blaive denouncing it as “mad” and a departure from Western legal traditions.
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