muffalettadiver

Iv'e respected Canada for years and I have visited a few times from America, but in the past few years whole bunches of fuck all have been going on up there (and everywhere else too, but talking on Canada).

Please Canada. Stop this madness. Good people everywhere should be speaking about this IN THERE DAILY LIVES so that this destructive barbarism is stopped.

pitenius

You interpreted that correctly, Canada is opening up the chance for people to sue because they do not like a joke.

Remember that when people bitch that Americans are litigious.

WallingFortian

First they came for the comedians, and I did not protest because I can't tell a joke.

ElspethTirel

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As a Canadian I can tell you that speech is no longer a protected right in Canada. We have hate speech laws that should concern everyone and under Canada's anti terror bill C-51 almost any form of human activity can be deemed terrorism if the government deems it so including speech.

I urge everyone on this sub to look into the case of Arthur Topham of Radical Press from Quesnel BC who has been charged under these hate speech laws for satire. Satire that was exposing things many of us on this sub agree with.

Whatever your beliefs are in this world of conspiracies this is something that effects every single Canadian. The Donald isn't looking so bad from my side of the fence , funny how the grass is always greener.

WallingFortian

Near as I can recall, freedom of speech was never a right for Canadians. Canada just got some spill over from their southern neighbor.

EDIT: You learn something new every day. (Thanks to /u/goatsandbros and /u/Amateur_Wizard .)

goatsandbros

They do, though, but it's called the "...freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression ..."

The right is guaranteed under The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms .

Amateur_Wizard

It's in our anthem brah.

true north, strong and FREE

Canada is losing its shit because that social conservative Harper did this. C-51, etc. Trudeau/Wynne are too busy adding 4 cents a litre to our gas for a "cap and trade" bullshit.

Hey Americans, that would make it almost 45 cents added onto our gas for taxes. What the fuck right?

iamrage

Like that Egyptian kid that got deported for saying something stupid on Facebook like: "I'm going to kill Trump". Fucking crazy if you ask me.