Trudeau gov't funding online censorship fan club
Network of 'anti-hate' groups cheering Trudeau gov't regulation bills
As the Trudeau government reloads in its push for internet censorship, it can count on a network of taxpayer supported ‘anti-hate’ groups to serve as its biggest cheerleaders.
Bill C-10; what critics referred to as the ‘YouTube censorship bill,’ met with stiff opposition from pro free speech advocates, such that the bill was held up in the Senate and ultimately allowed to die before the last election.
Having failed last time, the Trudeau government has served notice it’s going to push for passage of the bill during the current minority parliament and has support from a crown corporation; Canadian Race Relations Foundation.
The taxpayer funded foundation is “dedicated to the elimination of racism and all forms of racial discrimination in Canadian society.”
Trudeau himself; tarnished with his own history of repeatedly wearing blackface, has been relentless in pushing the idea Canada is ‘systemically racist’, thus justifying the need for action including online censorship.
Groups handed tax dollars through the Canadian Race Relations Foundation are pushing the idea Canada is facing a ‘crisis’ and ‘emergency’ over racism and online hatred.
In a press release dated November 30th, the taxpayer funded crown corporation released what it calls a national study with Nanos Research, which “confirms that the vast majority of Canadians want action to combat hate online and in the real world.”
According to the release, 79% of Canadians support introducing legislation to combat serious forms of harmful online content.
If the Trudeau government has any hope of passing what many see as a bill that allows for the policing of social media posts, it’ll rely on support from groups funded through this stream of tax dollars.
In this year’s federal budget, the government gave the CRRF $11M over two years to “provide grants to community organizations.”
Groups like Action, Chinese Canadians Together Foundation get government cash through the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and the Department of Heritage which is pushing Bill C-10.
Intelligence expert Tom Quiggin says this is cynically referred to as the self-licking ice cream, in which government funds the very groups it consults with in order to justify actions it wants to take.
“With this Bill C-10 we have the honourable minister was questioned. Is this a free speech thing. He said ‘what are you talking about?’ It’s a blatant lie. It has everything to do with free speech. The internet drives government insane because it is a channel of communication which they have an extraordinarily hard time controlling,” Quiggin said.