Now that The Bill has been released of course Pee Pee is backtracking:" He told reporters on Wednesday that he plans to oppose the upcoming bill, calling it Trudeau’s “latest attack on freedom of expression” and adding the prime minister cannot distinguish between hate speech and “speech he hates.”
Yeah.
That's just bullshit and he gets no props from me for that.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre didn't immediately react to the bill when it was tabled. Instead, he released a statement saying his party supports criminalizing the harmful content categories laid out in the bill. But the Tory leader accused the Liberals of trying to create more bureaucracy rather than supporting law enforcement agencies.
"These serious acts should be criminalized, investigated by police, tried in court and punished with jail, not pushed off to new bureaucracy that does nothing to prevent crimes and provides no justice to victims," the statement said.
A spokesperson for the party told CBC News the Conservatives have not yet decided how they'll vote on the bill.
Poilievre also said Conservatives "do not believe that the government should be banning opinions that contradict the Prime Minister's radical ideology," though the statement did not specify which parts of the bill raised that concern.
This Bill has received a lot of praise when watching the Panel of all stripes comment on it during The Vassy Kapelos' Power and Politics Show!!