Justice committee  One of the issues on that is that there does need to be more study on how we can actually address this modern context. There are many distinctions and different types of approaches that can be adopted to different contexts, so distinctions need to be drawn between speech whose ch

Justice committee  Again, I think that does need to be looked at, but examining the lower-level, administrative law, non-criminal approaches is certainly an important part of the tool kit.

Justice committee  I haven't considered that particular possibility, but it may be an appropriate response; I'm not sure. Again, I think it depends on what we are looking at in terms of the type of speech and how we're making these determinations. I don't think we want a situation where people are

Justice committee  Certainly social media companies have shown that they can be quite effective in dealing with the most obviously prohibited content. That has been effective against terrorist content and stuff like that, so there is a role for that, but more needs to be done.

Justice committee  Yes. There needs to be recourse against the platforms and the individuals responsible for the speech.

Justice committee  That's actually really difficult. If we're talking about privacy concerns, I think it's maybe more appropriate.

Justice committee  I think we need to be really careful about that, because it can create an incentive to censor. If there are really hefty fines and a need for fast action, that can be an incentive to just take things off, and it can lead to the removal of important speech, political speech—

Justice committee  Again, I think that we just need to be careful about who's making the determination of what is hate, what speech is being removed and that these decisions aren't necessarily being outsourced to private corporations that have a profit motive to potentially censor any unpopular vie

Justice committee  Our view is that, certainly, a non-criminal administrative law remedy needs to be examined, but the circumstances are so different now and the forms of hate have changed. There's a need to really examine what's going to be most effective, based on an evidence-based policy. I'm no

Justice committee  Thank you. On behalf of Egale Canada, I would like to thank the committee for the opportunity to speak today on this critical question of online governance. Ensuring that there are meaningful protections against online hate and harassment, while also maintaining our commitment t

Justice committee  Criminalization should be seriously questioned, and the only circumstance in which it should be even contemplated is actual and intentional transmission.

Justice committee  The primary difficulties with the directive are that it still requires prosecutorial judgment regarding the types of activities that will trigger criminal liability, so there is room for prosecutions based on conduct, such as sex with a condom, depending on the vague sense of oth

Justice committee  The point was previously made by Mr. Boissonnault that public health legislation already provides for a device to respond. Egale has serious concerns about the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure in general and particularly outside the context of actual and intentional transmis

Justice committee  Similar directives could be adopted in the provinces to allow for much better coherence with the federal directive, or they could be mirroring or they could go further.

Justice committee  Yes, absolutely.