Should Champions of Liberalism Get Behind Trudeau’s Online Speech Restrictions? Robert Stewart, National Newswatch, April 8, 2021 With the Liberal Party soon introducing their long-promised online “hate speech” ban, it’s important Canadians put aside any emotiveness on the issue and commit some serious thought on what’s really at stake. Although less punitive than our existing criminal hate speech prohibitions, the forthcoming bill, like the since-repealed Section 13 of Canada’s human rights code, will be much more expansive. What scares people most about bans against “hate” is that such laws naturally fail to communicate exactly what’s punishable and what’s not. Concepts like hate speech, of course, are entirely subjective, and liberal societies have always bristled at implementing vague, open-ended laws; so easy are they at becoming tools of the powerful to suppress the powerless.