Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Fernández, the Trudeau government has introduced Bill C-63, known as the online harms act. It has been characterized as Orwellian by Margaret Atwood. The Atlantic has published an article in which it labelled the bill as “Canada's Extremist Attack on Free Speech”. The bill has been characterized this way: “The worst assault on free speech in modern Canadian history”.
Among other things, the bill will establish a so-called digital safety commission, a massive new bureaucracy of censors who will have the power to impose penalties on any person or social media service found to have permitted what Justin Trudeau deems to be “harmful content”, whatever that is. The penalties will be established by the Trudeau cabinet, not Parliament.
Do you have concerns about this so-called digital safety commission and the effect it will have on the free speech of Canadians online?