Bill C-10 and C-36 are horrific China emulating policies, loose definition of "hate speech", bypassing courts in favour of human rights tribunals with 100% conviction rates and no requirement of evidence, preventative enforcement by police.
With C-36, even saying something truthful, if causes perceived harm is a punishable offence.
People with money and skills will continue to move south.
I'll probably play twister and hope the direction it lands is a good one.
North American trends have not been great lately in general.
Maybe I'll finally get that European passport I've been putting off.
I'm looking at Northern Europe (good privacy laws) or Singapore (the rules are draconian, but very clear).
Several factors may accompany this phenomenon: polarization; perceived failures in education¹; sometimes anti-centrism in the government; political (the purpose of the party) and societal (the affiliation of the citizen with peers) crisis of identity...
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¹and Canada is the Country which promotes the relevant OECD studies
It is much cheaper now to move to another country and you can stay in frequent online contact with your kin. Back then, only serious oppression or poverty would force people to emigrate. If the problems were more tractable, people stayed and attempted to solve them in situ
Didn't the current premier's father do pretty much the same thing (suspend constitutional rights) in the 70's for... dubious reasons to say the least? He was also the man who paved the way to normalize relations with China and Cuba, two nations known for their respect of human rights.
> and the brain drain to accelerate.
On the hiring side I can tell it's happening.
Yes, it was called the October Crisis.[1]
I don't think we should be judging Justin Trudeau for his father's actions, but we should judge him because when he was asked to apologize (on behalf of the government) for the October Crisis, he refused.
I expect Canada to become a police state (its already on the way)
looking at the globe I don't really see a strong correlation between the success of technology, even directly in social media and freedom of expression.
Nowhere on the globe do 'digital sovereignty' style politics seem to benefit American companies. Just seems like an ideological take. I think it's pretty likely that a Canadian or European firewall would actually just promote Canadian or European operated business, because natives tend to have an edge when local values are baked into the system.
There is also enough ambiguity in the proposal to worry about the continuing availability of commercial unfiltered VPNs in Canada, at least in the longer term.
1. https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/rights-group-denounces-lack-of-c...
This can't be understated. Who are these bills benefiting at the end of the day? Because the most marginalized people in my life — and those who are most often the targets of hate speech — are being pushed even further to the margins by legislation like this.
Everyone’s future overlords.
Politically active people who want to feel good about themselves?
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/strengthening-substack-jour...
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/harmful...