Thank you, Madam Chair.
Your committee is studying how the government should protect free speech. This seems to me to be quite a strange question for you to be studying, because the answer seems obvious and because, for years, the federal government has been doing the opposite. Free speech is a right we hold against government. Free speech means the right to be free from government limits on speech. If governments did nothing, we would have free speech. Governments protect free speech by getting out of the way.
Therefore, if you want to protect free speech, stop limiting speech. Defeat Bill C-63, the online harms act. Repeal Bill C-18, the Online News Act. Repeal Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act. Repeal the gender amendments to the Canadian Human Rights Act from the old Bill C-16, and so on. If you want to protect free speech, stop limiting speech. As Winston Churchill put it, there is nothing government can give to you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.