Canada: Trudeau-Backed Online Harms Act Faces Criticism Amid Potential Life Imprisonment Over Speech Crime | HNGN [Video]

A new Canadian law, the Online Harms Act, which is backed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, is facing widespread criticism for alleged government overreach.

The bill was first introduced last month and is also known as Bill C-63 which would allow judges to imprison adults for life if they are found advocating for genocide. The measure would also allow judges to impose house arrest as well as a fine if there were reasonable grounds to believe that a defendant “will commit” an offense.

Canada’s Online Harms Act

This was a provision that Wall Street Journal columnist Michael Taube compared with the 2002 film, “The Minority Report.” Additionally, the author of “The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood, criticized the new Canadian bill as “Orwellian.”

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