Colleagues, we know that, besides RT TV, there are a number of radio broadcasts that are also transmitted across this country by organizations or agencies that are essentially proxies for the regimes that all of us are all too aware of. They are using our airways to poison Canadians against the very people this proposed act is aiming to protect. If we are going to protect our diaspora communities, if we're going to protect those who are living under these dictatorships and theocracies and despots who are abusing their human rights, then we shouldn't allow them to transmit their propaganda, either directly or through their proxies here in Canada, whether by radio or by television.
Regarding the issue of freedom of speech, we're not stopping Canadians from saying what they want. We're going after those who have already been identified and sanctioned by the Government of Canada, or an entity or state that Parliament has decided has carried out a genocide. To my mind, there's no way we'd want to give them any bandwidth to promote their hate and disdain for the people they are persecuting back in their own countries.