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OTTAWA, Ontario, July 27, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has praised a highly controversial “hate speech” bill introduced by Prime Minister Trudeau’s Liberal Party, saying it would give cops the power to “do something” about online “hate.”
“An amendment to this section of the Code I believe will have a positive effect as far as our ability to do something about online hate when something needs to be done,” said Cpl. Anthony Statham of the RCMP’s British Columbia Hate Crimes Team, according to Blacklock’s Reporter as reported by the Western Standard.
Statham was commenting on Bill C-36, which was introduced by Justice Minister David Lametti just before Canada’s House of Commons closed for summer break.
The bill is titled “An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Canadian Human Rights Act and to make related amendments to another Act (hate propaganda, hate crimes and hate speech).” If passed bloggers and social media users could be targeted for speaking their minds.
Canada banned hate speech in 1970, but Statham said that the 1970 law did not define what constituted “hate” speech and stated that what law enforcement needs is “the ability to use the law effectively.”
Statham said that no law in Canada regulates speech, claiming that under
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