Public Safety committee  I have all night.

Public Safety committee  You can't even go on certain forums if you're a woman, right?

Public Safety committee  That's a difficult question for sure. I would definitely say you need to look at it on a case-by-case basis. Most of the time we're talking about sexual harassment. I think most people would agree that is not acceptable, and you should definitely look into it.

Public Safety committee  Fair enough, but sexual harassment has lifetime effects on people. If you call someone doo-doo on Twitter, or something like that, it's totally different than sexual harassment. You would treat them completely different is what I would say to that. It deserves to be looked at in its more serious tones than political arguments, essentially, which is how I was framing my argument.

Public Safety committee  They say the most horrible things just to say them. You can't get rid of that. I don't know what you can do to get rid of that. Are we going to send these people to jail just for being nasty? I understand that it can be really tough to be in the spotlight and everything. It's not something I have to deal with.

Public Safety committee  Yes, in general, it can be a very positive thing. It's just worrying, this letting these enforcement bodies run rampant with their power, right? I'm not saying that we're at that stage now. I'm saying that I'm worried about getting there. I don't want to head in that direction too much.

Public Safety committee  It honestly depends on how you're speaking about it. Tone means a lot—where you're coming from, what is being said—so you'd have to get into some very specific situations, I feel. I think in general you should be allowed to say what you want, even if it's super negative. I think people should be open-minded enough to know that you're either upset or have some sort of issue that just gets under your skin or something like that.

Public Safety committee  Right. It's part of the job.

Public Safety committee  I don't necessarily know that you need to go to jail for it immediately.

Public Safety committee  Okay. I understand what you're saying now. You're talking about people saying something horrible to someone, and that they shouldn't do that, that it's morally objective. I get that. Honestly, in a perfect world, people wouldn't do that sort of thing, but obviously it's going to happen.

Public Safety committee  It's definitely not the sort of thing I think we need to aspire to. You do have Internet trolls. You're familiar with the term “trolls”, right?

Public Safety committee  I came largely unprepared today, but I know for sure that the specific thing that bothers me about Bill C-51 would be on freedom of speech. I post a lot of things on social media. What I've been told about this legislation is that if I suggest that I don't like what government is doing, just in voicing my opinion, I can be suspected of terrorist activity.

Public Safety committee  I've read a number of articles about Bill C-51. Alarmingly, these articles suggest that being outspoken can lead to prosecution or being a suspect or something like that. I couldn't cite a specific place I heard it from. It's just that from doing the research that I've done, that's what has been suggested to me, and it's very worrying to hear.

Public Safety committee  I think it largely depends on your role, essentially. As a citizen, you should pretty much be allowed to say dang near anything, I would think. I'm a big fan of shows like South Park and Family Guy. They talk about everything and they say horrible, terrible things about just about everybody, but that's freedom of speech.

Public Safety committee  If I'm on the train and threatening someone there.... Usually you'd want to see citizens stand up in unity and have people essentially self-policing. If you see something's wrong, stand up and do something about it. I think that's what we're taught in school to do. Maybe it's not so prevalent in our modern society, where we get more compartmentalized away from each other, but I would think that people would just stand up and—