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Justice committee The problem with what is being proposed here is that you're contemplating taking the prosecution of hate speech away from a prosecutor or a Crown attorney—
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Jay Cameron
Justice committee I would like to answer the question, if I may. You're talking about the approval of the attorney general and giving it to a tribunal, which is an entirely different entity.
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Jay Cameron
Justice committee Who determines if it's hateful?
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Jay Cameron
Justice committee What mechanism is there for somebody to determine that something on an online platform is hateful? For example, Facebook says that it's content-neutral, that it's a marketplace of ideas and that it doesn't police speech.
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Jay Cameron
Justice committee The criticism out of the United States and certain other pundits is that Facebook is violating its own premise by taking down speech when it represents to the public—
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Jay Cameron
Justice committee I'm not; I'm answering your question. Maybe you don't understand the answer I'm trying to give you, but it is an answer to your question. Facebook says that it's a marketplace of ideas and that it's neutral, yet it is policing speech. They're taking down speech. My question for
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Jay Cameron
Justice committee Does it trouble me that they were inspired by social media?
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Jay Cameron
Justice committee I don't presume to know what inspired these people. I'm not them; I don't know what their childhood was like or what they were subjected to.
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Jay Cameron
Justice committee Any time somebody commits a heinous act against people, it troubles me. I think any time they're motivated to do that, in part or in whole, by something somebody said, it is troublesome. Crimes happen every single day and people are influenced by what other people across the coun
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Jay Cameron
Justice committee That is related to what, sorry?
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Jay Cameron
Justice committee That's a Criminal Code offence.
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Jay Cameron
Justice committee Absolutely.
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Jay Cameron
Justice committee The law of defamation is tried in civil court. It's punished. It's not censored prior to the defamation. There's a difference.
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Jay Cameron
Justice committee Do you mean criminal harassment?
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Jay Cameron
Justice committee Absolutely. Do you mean a restraining order or something like that? Sure.
May 16th, 2019Committee meeting
Jay Cameron