Mr. Speaker, there are a couple of things I want to say. I agree with my colleague in principle that the bill is not strictly to do with online harms. We do have the hate speech component. The problem is that we already have laws that clearly govern hate speech in this country, which have been the laws for several decades. Against the backdrop of what is happening on our streets from coast to coast, the demonstrations and the protests, there appears to be a lack of political will by law enforcement to actually enforce the existing laws, so I am not in favour of creating more laws when laws already exist.
As a member of the legal community for close to 30 years, I believe in clarity. I believe in succinctness. We already have that on the books. We need a direction from this government, a direction from the Department of Justice, to encourage police to do their job and to prosecute these individuals who demonstrate clearly on a week-to-week basis that they are crossing the line between protected speech and hate speech.