They are proud to be seen contemplating an unjustified, probably unconstitutional and certainly useless limitation on freedom of speech.
“The acknowledges that the determination of formal liability for the commission of genocide is to be made before judicial bodies,” notes a legal analysis published with the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls . “An assessment of both individual and state responsibility requires a considerable body of evidence and must be carried out by a competent tribunal charged with this task.
Last year, furthermore, after some healthy debate but without much fanfare — it was buried 375 pages deep in the budget implementation bill — Canada banned denial of the Holocaust. Or so you would have thought, hearing MPs talk about it and watching the news. If you read the actual bill — and you should always read the actual bill — you’ll find new Criminal Code Section 319 only targets those who “wilfully promote anti-Semitism” by denying the Holocaust.
Well, I guess we’ll see. Assuming all parties were happy with the ban/not-a-ban ruse, the simplest way to enact Gazan’s idea would simply be to add “genocide against Indigenous people,” or words to that effect, to Section 391. Canada would then have two specific genocides that it pretended to have made it illegal to deny. But it’ll sound good at parties, and who’s going to check?
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