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Jagmeet Singh says NDP will push Trudeau for more censorship and government control of Internet

Twenty-five New Democrat MPs will pressure cabinet for legislation this year to regulate legal internet content, Party leader Jagmeet Singh said yesterday. Regulations should include censoring “misinformation,” he said.

On January 4, 2023, at a news conference Jagmeet Singh, the leader of Canada’s far left-wing “New Democratic Party” (NDP) made a statement cheerleading for increased government control of the Internet and censorship of “misinformation”. Singh made this plead for increased censorship in response to reporters mentioning Twitter is lifting its ban on political ads and what he thinks it could mean for foreign interference in Canada’s elections.

“The Liberal government has not done the job of making sure platforms are following the rules around making sure hate and misinformation are not being spread,” Singh told reporters. “That puts the responsibility back on the government to do what it should be doing. We are going to continue to pressure the government to do this.”

“The government has a responsibility to play in making sure social media platforms are adhering to proper guidelines around misinformation, around hate, and why we have been saying for a long time the responsibility to keep people safe from misinformation and radicalization cannot rest in the hands of private companies,” said Singh. “It has to be the government taking responsibility.”

A censorship bill that expired in the pre-election 2021 Parliament has not yet been reintroduced by the Liberal cabinet, according to Blacklock’s Reporter. Bill C-36, An Act To Amend The Criminal Code, proposed Users of the internet who are found to be responsible for legal content that is “likely to foment detestation or vilification” might be fined $70,000 under Bill C-36, An Act To Amend The Criminal Code.

The Liberal government, according to Singh, has not taken any “concrete steps” to censor online “hate speech” and “misinformation.”

“In fact, there is no law proposed to tackle online hate, there is no special representative named to deal with Islamophobia,” he said on June 6, 2022.

“What is the Prime Minister going to do to tackle the rise of online hate so we can build a better future for our kids?” Singh earlier asked in the House on Jan. 31, 2022.

9,218 people signed a petition to the Department of Canadian Heritage objecting to the idea of Bill C-36. Lawmakers, lawyers, academics, libertarians, and supporters of free speech all argued that restricting legal speech was burdensome and unconstitutional.

Whether “hate speech” is done in real life or online it’s all the same and hate speech is already prohibited in Canada as a result of 1970 Criminal Code revisions. To add another law for hate speech would be redundant.

As for “misinformation”, it has been defined as false or inaccurate information but ha become the favorite word used by dishonest actors seeking to silence their opposition and dodge a debate.

Canada’s far left-wing New “Democratic” Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh is in full support of more government censorship and control over the Internet despite his own party spreading falsehoods.

With zero evidence Jagmeet Singh and several other NDP and Liberal MP’s accused the Freedom Convoy of an arson incident in an apartment building lobby. The two suspects were arrested and police concluded they had no connections to the Freedom Convoy.

“Now that Ottawa Police has come out and said there’s no evidence that the Feb. 6 residential building arson attempt was connected to the #FreedomConvoy2022 protest I have compiled every time a Liberal/NDP MP falsely smeared protestors as arsonists in the House of Commons #cdnpoli” wrote Cosmin, a journalist for True North.

Last year in October 2022 during a committee meeting on the Declaration of Emergency, NDP MP Matthew Green claimed there was a “wrecking ball” suspended in the air at the Freedom Convoy protest on Wellington street in Ottawa.

A user posted a video to Twitter debunking NDP Matthew Green’s claim of a “wrecking ball” dangling above the street.

“NDP MP Matthew Green tries to justify the use of Emergencies Act by claiming there was a “crane with a wrecking ball” hanging above the street at the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa. But video shows a Canada flag” wrote the user on Twitter.

Another user posted a video of again NDP MP Matthew Green labeling someone as a “serial killer” when a court concluded the accused was found not guilty on all criminal charges issued when he defended himself against armed violent Black Lives Matter rioters as they burned down buildings and loot local businesses.

“hmmm…this should be interesting.” The tweet begun, adding “Will Jag be cancelling his own members?”

Here is a list of other laws proposed by the government that can be used for censorship.

Bill C-11 “Online Streaming Act“: Critics argue the proposed legislation will allow the CRTC, with decisions at arms reach of the government, to demand internet social media networks to manipulate their algorithms and put stuff in front of your face you don’t want to see, in what the government claims to “save Canadian content”.

Bill C-18 “Online News Act”: Opponents have pointed to the potential to silence online news outlets by excluding from the bill. Liberal MP Claims Online News Services Don’t Report News.

Bill C-26 “An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts”: The proposed legislation is supposed to be a Cybersecurity law but critics are sounding the alarm over the vaguely written bill with an overly broad scope which empowers the government to secretly disconnect people and other telecommunications companies from Internet Service Providers if the government feels they are guilty of “interference,” “manipulation” or “disruption” which all have been left undefined within the law.

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Jordan
Jordan
Jordan is a casual reporter for BC Rise
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