FRESH from trampling over the legitimate freedoms of its citizens, Canada is again busy devising new ways to weaken any resistance to the state.
This, let me remind you, is the country that ruled that Jordan Peterson’s refusal to use the ‘non-binary’ gender pronouns zee, hir and per constituted discrimination and was punishable by law. You can read more about that episode here.
Then there was the persecution of Christians including Pastor Pawlowski and the awful treatment of truckers trying to exercise their democratic right to protest against vaccine mandates, which included freezing their assets.
Now, the Canada-based LifeSite News is reporting that a new Canadian Bill, backed by Prime Minister Mark Carney, would establish powers to cut off access to the internet of anyone it deems a dissident.
‘Bill C-8, which is now in its second reading in the House of Commons, was introduced in June by Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree and has a provision in which the federal government could stop “any specified person” from accessing the internet,’ the report says. ‘All that would be needed is the OK from Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly for an individual to be denied internet service.
‘The Bill is titled An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts, and it contains a clause that mandates all internet providers to pull internet services from anyone whom the government demands.
‘The Bill would allow the industry minister to “prohibit a telecommunications service provider from providing any service to any specified person” all without a warrant. The only recourse a banned person would have is after the order is given. They would have to get a federal court to look at the ban order for a judicial review. The government under Carney claims that the Bill is a way to stop “unprecedented cyber-threats”.
‘The Bill as written claims that the government would need the power to cut someone off from the internet, as it could be “necessary to do so to secure the Canadian telecommunications system against any threat, including that of interference, manipulation, disruption, or degradation”.’
Thankfully many are speaking out against the Bill including People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Canada’s intelligence commissioner.
The full article here on this dangerous Soviet-style precedent is worth reading.
