“Every person who advocates or promotes genocide is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life.”
“Everyone who commits an offence under this Act or any other Act of Parliament, if the commission of the offence is motivated by hatred based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life.”
Kaboom@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Look at the text of the bill for yourself. www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/…/first-reading
Just ctrl-f for prison
Grant_M@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I’ve read the bill. There are ZERO passages that indicate life sentences for ‘speech crimes’
Kaboom@reddthat.com 3 months ago
“Every person who advocates or promotes genocide is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life.”
“Everyone who commits an offence under this Act or any other Act of Parliament, if the commission of the offence is motivated by hatred based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life.”
Grant_M@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
This IN NO WAY stops free speech or freedom of expression. Nazis should be punished PERIOD. And not advocating genocide should be EASY AS FUCK to do.