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Canada’s former chief justice is warning that a federal bill regulating “online harms” will undoubtedly face constitutional challenges.
Beverley McLachlin, who retired from the Supreme Court of Canada in 2017, shared her concerns in an interview with journalist Edward Greenspon.
She noted that Bill C-63 creates a new hate law based on motivation, accompanied by increased sentences of up to life imprisonment.
“Life sentences for sending out some words. That’s heavy. And it will, I suspect, be challenged,” said McLachlin.
She added that this is just a bill and may not become law, but it will engender debate.
McLachlin explained that anti-hate laws have been in the Criminal Code for many years but a high threshold for criminal convictions means there are very few prosecutions.
“When the internet came, I think we realized that this useful but very cumbersome, if you wish, method of handling hate speech and other genocidal speech is probably inadequate to the task,” said McLachlin.
McLachlin said that defining hate speech is a difficult task in the criminal context, and defining genocide is hugely difficult.
“And then the underlying issue is how far can you go without violating the guarantee in our charter of free speech? Where is the line between hateful comment, for example, and a person’s right of free speech?” asked McLachlin.
These questions have led to many constitutional challenges related to such provisions, said McLachlin.
The first woman to be appointed as chief justice of Canada compared two previous cases. The first case, Keegstra, went to the Supreme Court in 1990 and found that the prosecution of a high school teacher in Alberta for antisemitic statements in his class was a reasonable and justifiable limitation on freedom of expression.
At the time of the decision, McLachlin’s dissenting opinion did not agree that the limitation to freedom of expression was justifiable and reasonable under Section 1 of the Charter.
“Although I dissented, I’m content with Keegstra. I think it draws a line that is workable and that is necessary in our modern society, where there is so much hate and vilification circulation, and people can be so badly harmed by it,” she said.
The Ernst Zündel case was a Supreme Court decision from 1992 where the court struck down the provision in the Criminal Code that prohibited the publication of false news because it violated the freedom of expression provision of the Charter. McLachlin wrote the majority decision, concluding that restricting all expressions likely to cause injury or mischief to a public interest was far too broad.
“So Zündel didn’t survive, but Keegstra, which was more pointedly directed to antisemitic hate speech, did,” she said.
McLachlin said that she has always been a staunch advocate for free expression but thinks that it’s possible to make cases for both sides in both the Zündel and Keegstra cases.
Legislation can limit free expression if the courts find the limitation to be reasonable.
“If the limit is too stringent on freedom of speech, then it will not be upheld,” she said.
The ability for people to issue complaints is an important feature of any legislation in the online area, said McLachlin.
Some provinces already have specialized tribunals to deal with complaints about internet content, but no such tribunal exists federally.
Adding these complaints to the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s already-busy workload will be a real administrative challenge, said McLachlin.
She added that when a criminal case about hate is brought before the courts, it has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. However, in the human rights tribunals, that is not the case.
“And in some cases, truth is not a defence. So, there’s a risk here that there could be prosecutions. People use the word overzealous prosecutions that amount almost to persecution, or at very least go over that justifiable red line for intruding on free speech,” said McLachlin.
The previous provision under the Canada Human Rights Act, Section 13, existed until 2013.
McLachlin explained that many people considered it too intrusive of freedom of speech and the idea that people should be able to discuss all sorts of ideas freely, which led to the Harper government repealing it.
The section is set to return, which McLachlin expects to receive a lot of debate in the House of Commons.
It’s the government’s responsibility to deal with new media and new harms that develop in society, said McLachlin.
“So, I applaud the government for taking this on, as many other countries have. And I welcome the debate that some of the provisions may evoke. And we’re at the early stages here. I hope that in the end, we will come up with a good law on all these difficult, difficult points,” said McLachlin.
She concluded that she was certain that many of the provisions will be challenged if they remain in their current form.
Days after reports emerged that the Liberal government would resume funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency despite concerning links to Hamas, two Liberal MPs have called on Ottawa to ditch the organization once again.
In a joint statement released Thursday, MPs Anthony Housefather and Marco Mendicino voiced their objections to relying on UNRWA as a conduit for aid distribution to Gaza.
The MPs stood by Canada’s recent decision to suspend funding to UNRWA, echoing similar actions taken by G7 partners and other allies.
Citing recent allegations implicating UNRWA employees in a Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, the MPs expressed deep concern about providing the group more funding.
“We are deeply troubled by the allegations that UNRWA employees were involved in the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel,” wrote Housefather and Mendicino.
“In addition, UNRWA employees have been sanctioned in the past for facilitating terrorist activity and for using antisemitic materials in educational textbooks. This misconduct has contributed to the spread of violence, disinformation and hate.”
After the two MPs released their letter, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters Canada would “continue to move thoughtfully forward.”
“We know how important it is to get aid into Gaza to help families, innocent civilians. The people who have been devastated by the past two months facing starvation, facing instability and uncertainty. We know we need to continue to be there for them,” said Trudeau.
“At the same time, there are serious allegations being followed up by the United Nations and we’re going to continue to move thoughtfully forward but our priority will always be being there to protect innocent lives.”
These actions, according to Housefather and Mendicino, have contributed to the perpetuation of violence, misinformation, and hatred in the region.
They argued that UNRWA’s governance and internal controls are inadequate to ensure the reliable delivery of aid to those in need, raising fears of funds being misappropriated by Hamas.
“Given its history, we believe that UNRWA lacks sufficient governance and internal controls to ensure that humanitarian aid delivered by Canada will be reliably delivered to those who actually need it and that there is a serious risk funds will be misappropriated by Hamas,” the two MPs argued.
“The independent investigation reports into UNRWA have yet to be released. Consequently, serious questions remain as to UNRWA’s ability to reform its structure.”
Housefather and Mendicino insisted that the federal government continue to aid refugees in Gaza but using different means by aligning with other allies like the United States, which has sought avenues other than the UNRWA to provide humanitarian assistance.
Funding was paused to the UNRWA by the Liberals in January after reports emerged unveiling ties to Hamas. Earlier this week, CBC News reported that Ottawa plans to resume funding the UNRWA after receiving requests from the United Nations.
Young teens in Quebec dealing with gender dysphoria are being rushed into irreversible gender transitions, despite activist claims to the contrary.
An investigation by Radio-Canada, CBC’s French language arm, revealed how 14-year-old girls in the province can quickly obtain a prescription for cross sex hormones, without a medical referral or the consent of their parents.
“Trans Express” took on the polarizing topic of child transitions with interviews with trans youth who are happy with their transitions and “gender-affirming” healthcare providers, but also with detransitioners and gender critical voices.
Quebec has no minimum age for gender transitions, although trans-identified patients must wait until they are 16 to get double mastectomies and 18 to get genital surgery.
From 14 and onward, parental consent is not required for one to be prescribed puberty blockers and hormones.
Radio-Canada sent a young 14-year-old actress with a hidden camera into a private gender clinic to test the system. She received a prescription in minutes. This teen was able to get her prescription without the presence of her parents or a referral from a doctor, psychologist or therapist.
The girl was asked to review a form containing all the side effects of medical transition, before then seeing a doctor. The girl told the doctor that she was diagnosed with an eating disorder and became convinced she was born in the wrong body after watching videos on the internet.
Rather than review all the side effects of hormones with the patient, or try to see if underlying conditions were behind the teen’s gender dysphoria, the doctor proceeded to ask the teen if her parents supported her transitioning, and if she had considered surgery, “(like a) mastectomy, removing the chest.”
The doctor also asked the child if she wanted to preserve her fertility. “I understand that it’s a bit far off for you, at 14… Is fertility something you want to preserve before you start?”
“Er… no. I always knew I didn’t want children,” replied the girl, to which the doctor said “okay.”
After just nine minutes, the girl was given a prescription for cross sex hormones.
“Of course, when you’re 14, we don’t give adult doses right away, because you don’t want your hair to start growing the next morning,” said the doctor. “I’m going to start you on an intermediate dose…between adult and non-binary.”
When asked by Radio-Canada to comment, the doctor said, “a medical consultation is not evaluated in terms of duration, but rather in terms of the quality of the exchange of information between the patient and the healthcare professional. When the healthcare professional feels that all the necessary elements have been covered, and the patient has had the opportunity to ask all his or her questions, there is no reason to continue the consultation just to reach a specific duration.”
Multiple detransitioners from Quebec said they feel they were rushed into irreversible transitions by “gender-affirming” healthcare providers, whom they say did little about other pre-existing mental health conditions.
The first detransitioner, a 24-year-old woman who used the pseudonym Clara, said she dealt with fragile mental health as well as self-esteem issues as a teenager.
She was exposed to gender ideology on social media site Tumblr, and was subsequently encouraged to transition by a “gender-affirming” psychologist. After a few sessions with the psychologist, Clara told her mother, “I’d rather be an effeminate boy than a butch woman.”
“I didn’t feel specifically like a woman, because the representations of women I saw gave me the impression that this was a standard I would never be able to reach.”
“Clara’s” parents were told to begin transitioning their daughter right away, as otherwise, she may commit suicide.
“From the very first meeting, (the therapist said) it was important to act as if (Clara) were a boy….To take steps with the school, to start hormone therapy as soon as possible, because the suicide rate was very, very, very high in the first year (of transition).”
At 15, “Clara” was placed on puberty blockers and then cross sex hormones. She then received a double mastectomy at 17.
“Clara” however later came to regret her surgery. She has since detransitioned and is living as a woman, but with permanent changes to her body.
Jane Rocheleau-Matte was another detransitioner featured in the report investigation.
Rocheleau-Matte explained that she was a tomboy as a teenager, and discovered gender ideology on streaming platform Twitch during the pandemic and thought it was “something that resonates with me, a girl who thinks she’s more masculine.”
At 16, she began taking cross sex hormones, and soon after, was green lit for a double mastectomy by a “gender-affirming” endocrinologist.
Rocheleau-Matte says she began having regrets the moment she took off her bandages. But as she would find out, detransitioning is harder than transitioning.
“They told me I had to wait two or three years and have psychological follow-up for over a year,” she said. Rocheleau-Matte found this surprising because “before they removed my breasts, they didn’t ask me for psychological follow-up.”
“I find that when you’re transitioning, there’s a lot of people welcoming you, no one questioning you,” Rocheleau-Matte added. “But when you arrive to detransition […] all of a sudden, you’re lower on the priority list.”
Like other jurisdictions, Quebec is seeing dramatic increases in child transitions amid gender ideology being rampant in schools and on social media.
Approximately 1100 gender dysphoric teens are currently being treated in the province’s two main gender clinics. The number of girls between the ages of 14 and 17 being prescribed testosterone increased by 870% in 10 years. Furthermore, 18 Quebec girls had their breasts removed in 2023, and while that number may be small, there were no double mastectomies performed on minors in 2017.
Reactions from the trans community were mixed. Some prominent trans voices in Quebec said they were shocked by the findings and agreed that doctors are going too fast. However, more militant trans activists called out Radio-Canada for airing the investigation, accusing the public broadcaster of spreading “moral panic” and platforming “anti-trans voices.”
Michelle Blanc, one of the most well-known transgender women in Quebec, said in aninterview with CHOI Radio X she was “profoundly shocked” by what she saw.
“We have gone from it being hard to change genders to it being too easy,” said Blanc, who added that “ideology must leave therapy.”
Beatrice Robichau, a prominent Quebec transgender business woman, told Radio X that while she was disappointed that the documentary made it seem like the majority of teen transitions end in regret, she also believes the a hormone presription after a nine-minute consultation is unreasonable.
Robichau wants the College of Physicians to get involved and reprimand doctors who rush kids into transition without following proper protocols.
Left-wing trans activist Celeste Trianon meanwhile accused Radio-Canada of “platforming junk science,” claiming that “by further platforming anti-trans junk science, Radio-Canada is granting a voice of authority to these bad faith actors who are attempting to erase us, to dehumanize us, to eliminate us from public life.”
University of Alberta law professor and militant trans activist Florence Ashley echoed Trianon’s concerns. “Radio-Canada jumping on the moral panic train by making a whole documentary platforming anti-trans views in the middle of an unprecedented rise in legal persecution towards trans people in Canada. Beyond disappointing. They should be ashamed.”
Polls have consistently put the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre in firm majority territory, with some showing the Liberals almost in third place behind the NDP. The Liberals have responded by embracing their favourite pastime – importing American political fights. Justin Trudeau’s and the Liberal party’s attacks on the Conservatives are increasingly about Donald Trump, True North’s Andrew Lawton points out.
Also, the federal government’s proposed online hate speech ban is coming under fire for having such an ill-defined test for what constitutes hate speech. Andrew discusses with law professor Bruce Pardy.
Plus, former broadcaster Jamil Jivani has been elected member of Parliament for Durham. He joins the show to discuss his win and his plans when he gets to Ottawa.
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British Columbia MLA Selina Robinson has left the NDP caucus with harsh parting words about her party’s treatment of her and its tolerance of antisemitism.
In her scathing resignation letter, Robinson called out several of her NDP colleagues for not only their apathy and lack of solidarity towards B.C.’s Jewish community, but also their alleged antisemitism.
Robinson wrote that after the Oct. 7 attack her colleagues failed to show her and the Jewish community support and solidarity during their troubling times.
“You actually broke my heart in the days after October 7 – the day terrorists went into Israel and brutally murdered, slaughtered, raped, mutilated, killed and kidnapped 1200 civilians,” wrote Robinson.
Robinson accused Premier David Eby of holding Jewish MLAs to a different standard than those who make hurtful comments against the Jewish community, calling the alleged double standard out as antisemitism.
“When an elected person says something that harms the Jewish community whether the comments or position is intended or unintended, the expectation is that a simple apology is sufficient,” said Robinson.
“But when a Jewish elected person says something she ‘has deep work to do’ according to the Premier and is no longer trusted. This double standard is antisemitism.”
Robinson said that Aman Singh, the parliamentary secretary for the environment and MLA Katrina Chen had replied to her email asking the government to make a public statement about the plight of Palestinians, not the Oct. 7 attack. Robinson says she hoped someone would have told Singh and Chen that the comments were inappropriate.
“But it wasn’t their antisemitism that broke my heart. It was your silence to their antisemitism that hurt the most. Not a single one of you responded to their insensitive, disrespectful and inappropriate email.”
The NDP’s parliamentary secretary for anti-racism, Mable Elmore was mentioned, as Robinson accused Elmore of antisemitism for anti-Zionist comments she had made as a union activist.
“Let me refresh your memory, in 2004 during an interview with Seven Oaks, Mable claimed ‘we have vocal Zionists in our work sites, and we have had to battle them’ regarding her anti-war activism in her union,” said Robinson.
Robinson alleged that B.C.’s attorney general, Niki Sharma, had not reached out to the Jewish community at all as of late January and that Sharma was instead focused on drafting legislation.
“So I reached out to Niki at the end of January two months after she became the designated point of contact for a community that is experiencing a spike in antisemitism, a community that is grieving and fearful. It turns out that the community leadership hadn’t even heard from her.”
The minister of mental health Jennifer Whiteside also received a mention, as she was accused of sharing anti-Israel content during the Occupy Wall Street movement, attributing Israeli ‘land theft’ to capitalism, and accusing Israel of ‘pinkwashing.’ Robinson also called out Whiteside for supporting the BDS movement, which calls for boycotts of Israeli products.
Robinson denounced MLA Ronna-Rae Leonard for inviting a Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset who “negated the existence of Israel.” She also called out cabinet minister Jagrup Brar for quoting Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbles in response to an opposition speech.
Robinson highlighted MLA Janet Routledge’s apology last year for minimising the Holocaust by comparing statements made by opposition MLAs to Nazi rhetoric.
Robinson’s departure from the NDP caucus came shortly after she had resigned as the minister of post-secondary education in Eby’s government.
Robinson says that she plans on sitting as an independent in the B.C. legislature.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was interrupted on a Thunder Bay, Ont. snowboarding trip by pro-Hamas protesters demanding he call for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Plus, as crime spikes in major cities across Canada, a First Nations chief wants Statistics Canada to stop releasing crime severity statistics because she thinks they’re racist and promote discrimination against Indigenous communities.
And the Bank of Canada has held its overnight interest rate at 5% for the fifth consecutive time since July of last year.
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A heated debate unfolded at a Cambridge city council meeting when Mayor Jan Liggett ordered the removal of Janice Fiaschetti, a concerned Kitchener resident, after she voiced apprehensions about the proposed universal gender-neutral changing area in the city’s new recreation center.
The common spaces of the change room will be fully visible through glass walls, according to blueprints posted by Reduxx on X. This proposal was said to be a way to ensure safety.
The council’s 7-2 vote in favour of the proposal to build the gender-neutral change room for the planned recreation centre came before Fiaschetti raised her concerns.
In the proposed bathroom, men, women, and children would be able to change in front of one another.
The mayor allotted Fiaschetti five minutes to raise her concerns to the council. The mayor seemed eager to hear the Kitchener resident’s thoughts as she smiled and joked about mispronouncing her name.
The Kitchener resident started by raising concerns about young children being in a change room where adults of any gender were able to change and be naked.
She asked the councillors whether any could guarantee that children would be safe in these areas, though she left no time for a response. She continued by saying that she had contacted the architects of MJMA Architecture & Design, who informed her that cubicles would be included in an otherwise open change room. Fiaschetti said that these were also known as “grooming cubicles.”
From her understanding, she said grooming cubicles have high walls, showers, and doors that can be locked for privacy.
“What if those same grooming cubicles allow the opportunistic individual to have contact with a vulnerable young child? Let us not be naïve. Our children are exposed to people who do not have their best interest in mind,” said Fiaschetti.
She continued with her allotted time for speech and began describing the process of grooming children.
Fiaschetti was almost immediately interrupted by the city’s mayor, who seemed to begin to get uncomfortable.
“I’m going to ask you to stop now because you’re going in a direction that is not allowed here,” said the mayor.
Fiaschetti agreed and said that she would redirect her speech.
“I’m just explaining the process, which you probably, you’re offering opportunities…”
She was interrupted once more by the mayor.
“That has nothing to do with this facility,” said Liggett.
The concerned citizen argued that it did, considering these were the very plans for the facility. She was promptly ordered to sit down by the mayor, who called for security.
They continued to argue for several minutes, but Fiaschetti’s microphone was muted, so little could be understood.
“You’re finished,” the mayor repeated numerous times.
Fiaschetti was then removed from the room.
Despite the controversy, Councillor Scott Hamilton moved the motion because the planned rec centre is set to be built within his jurisdiction, according to CBC.
He said that he felt the fears were misplaced and inaccurate.
“You can’t see the floor. You can’t have someone look over the ceiling. You can’t have someone stare through the crack and there’s lights on top of the doors,” he said.
Construction on the project, valued at $108.4 million, is scheduled to start this summer, with the facility expected to open its doors to the public in September 2026.
Tire wear emissions emit 1,850 times more pollution into the environment than exhaust pollutants, according to new research. This is particularly concerning for electric vehicles, as tire wear emissions increase for heavier vehicles, and EVs weigh more than their gas counterparts due to their batteries.
Emissions Analytics initially published research in 2020 claiming that tire particulate wear emissions were 1,000 times worse than exhaust emissions. Generating more feedback than any subject ever tackled by the organization, it decided to do a deeper dive.
Researchers began testing and analyzing tire wear emissions in more detail across a wider range of driving conditions and performed a detailed chemical analysis of hundreds of new tires.
After performing extensive research, Emissions Analytics determined that tire wear emissions are 1,850 times greater than real-world tailpipe particulate mass emissions.
However, tailpipe particulates are lower on new cars, and tire wear emissions increase with vehicle mass and aggressiveness of driving style. Exhaust filters becoming more efficient has led to tailpipe emissions falling over time, while tire wear emissions are rising as vehicles become heavier and added power and torque are available to drivers.
“On current trends, the ratio may well continue to increase,” said Emissions Analytics.
Emissions Analytics used high-precision scales to measure tire wear mass emissions weighing all four wheels, tires and rims together, without detaching for at least 1,000 miles on real roads. Then, a sampling system was used to collect particles at a fixed point immediately behind each tire, which was drawn into a real-time detector measuring the size of the distribution of particles by mass and number.
To measure the particles coming out of the exhaust in real-world conditions, researchers used special equipment, including a diffusion charger analyzer to check the number of particles by weight and a condensing particle counter to count the number of particles. Both of these tools were used together with a portable system designed to measure the overall flow of exhaust gases from the vehicle.
As a result, distance-specific mass and number emissions were derived and compared to equivalent tire metrics.
The mass wear from new tires is 16 times greater than the maximum permitted for the tailpipe, but 3,650 times greater than actual tailpipe emissions. The difference falls to 1,850 times greater when considering the full-life average tire emissions.
The increased emissions from aggressive driving highlight the potential risks associated with the heavier weight of battery-powered EVs.
“Half a tonne battery weight can result in tire emissions that are almost 400 times greater than real-world tailpipe emissions, everything else being equal,” said the organization.
Emissions Analytics revealed that cautious driving in battery-powered electric vehicles can mitigate the increased tire wear emissions caused by the vehicle’s additional weight, potentially resulting in lower tire wear than that of poorly driven internal combustion engine vehicles. It further points out the differences in how tire and tailpipe emissions interact with our environment, with tire emissions primarily affecting soil and water and exhaust emissions lingering in the air, thereby underscoring the challenges in evaluating their overall effect on public health and the environment.
The preliminary findings suggest that the ultrafine particles produced by tire wear, which represent a substantial portion of emissions, could have far-reaching effects on human health due to their ability to penetrate deeply into the lungs and, potentially, the bloodstream.
However, the research is far from conclusive. The variability in chemical composition and toxicity of tire emissions points to a significant gap in our understanding of their environmental and health implications.
With hundreds of different compounds identified in tires, some of which are known carcinogens, the need for further study is evident.
As this body of research expands, Emissions Analytics is actively looking for contributors and collaborators who can aid in this crucial investigation.
“We are looking to talk to anyone interested in research in this area,” concluded the research.
Ottawa’s Parliamentary Budget Office has grim projections for Canada in the coming year, anticipating a slow economic growth and a much larger national deficit than predicted by the governing Liberals.
In its latest economic and fiscal outlook released on Tuesday, the PBO forecasts a $46.8 billion deficit for 2024, significantly more than the Liberals’ $40.1 billion projection from last fall.
The deficit for 2023 was $24 billion.
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux doubts he’ll see balanced budgets in the short term, however, he said the government seems to be slowly moving in the right direction over the next five years.
“It certainly does not suggest that we are returning to balanced budgets, probably smaller deficits than what we have seen. Although, again, it’ll depend on how much new spending is in the government’s budget when it’s tabled next month,” said Giroux, according to the National Post.
Additionally, the report predicts higher deficits than Liberal projections for the next several years to come, due to higher-than-normal spending and higher debt charges, according to the government’s books.
Giroux’s estimates don’t include the costs of the newly announced national pharmacare legislation or the new Canada Disability Benefit, which recently passed in the House of Commons.
Nor does the latest report include any spending increase that is likely coming to the defence department, a sector that the government faces mounting pressure to fund.
The report is predicting less than 1% economic growth for 2024, before picking up pace again in 2025, however, Giroux stopped short of calling his predictions for this year a recession.
“Sluggish economic growth, I think is our best estimate, at this point with the information that we have right now, but there could always be surprises,” he said.
Should the Bank of Canada cut interest rates sometime this year, things could improve sooner than later but there is no guarantee that it will. The central bank announced that key rates would remain at 5% on Wednesday.
“If the bank is delayed or takes more time, before it starts to decrease the rate, that could act as a drag on economic growth,” said Grioux.
Sustained high-interest rates will also raise the cost of the government’s borrowing, noted Giroux.
There is a divide amongst economic analysts as to when the central bank will begin to lower rates with some suggesting as early as April, while others don’t expect a cut until at least June.
However, Giroux said a pause until June would only further add to the economy’s slow growth.
“Delaying that to June, for example, would be a headwind for the Canadian economy, but it wouldn’t be super strong so it wouldn’t not be sufficient in and of itself to put the Canadian economy in a recession,” he said.
This week Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced she would be presenting her 2024 budget on April 16.
