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speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2025-10-08 18:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Andrew Lawton",
"fr": "Andrew Lawton"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8902509\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I thank the parliamentary secretary for what I am assuming was intended to be a response to the question.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8902510\" data-originallang=\"en\">The Conservatives have zero objection to cracking down hard on online child sexual exploitation, and I hope the government will support the bill of the member for <a data-HoCid=\"317698\" href=\"/politicians/david-mckenzie/\" title=\"David McKenzie\">Calgary Signal Hill</a> taking aim at that. However, the Liberal government, in Bill <a data-HoCid=\"11452710\" href=\"/bills/43-2/C-36/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Canadian Human Rights Act and to make related amendments to another Act (hate propaganda, hate crimes and hate speech)\">C-36</a> and Bill <a data-HoCid=\"12913297\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-63/\" title=\"An Act to enact the Online Harms Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Human Rights Act and An Act respecting the mandatory reporting of Internet child pornography by persons who provide an Internet service and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts\">C-63</a>, lumped that in with its Orwellian anti-free speech censorship laws to do exactly what the parliamentary secretary is doing right now, which is to say that if we do not trust the government to weaponize the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal with a lower murky threshold for so-called hate speech, we are therefore okay with child sexual exploitation, which we are not.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8902511\" data-originallang=\"en\">Will the parliamentary secretary clear things up right now and say that section 13 of the Canadian Human Right Act, under the so-called online harms guise, will not be coming back and censoring Canadian speech online?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8902509\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie la secr\u00e9taire parlementaire pour ce que je suppose \u00eatre une r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 la question.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8902510\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les conservateurs n'ont aucune objection \u00e0 ce que l'on s\u00e9visse contre l'exploitation sexuelle des enfants en ligne, et j'esp\u00e8re que le gouvernement appuiera le projet de loi du d\u00e9put\u00e9 de <a data-HoCid=\"317698\" href=\"/politicians/david-mckenzie/\" title=\"David McKenzie\">Calgary Signal Hill</a>, qui s'attaque \u00e0 ce probl\u00e8me. Cependant, dans les projets de loi <a data-HoCid=\"11452710\" href=\"/bills/43-2/C-36/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Canadian Human Rights Act and to make related amendments to another Act (hate propaganda, hate crimes and hate speech)\">C\u201136</a> et <a data-HoCid=\"12913297\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-63/\" title=\"An Act to enact the Online Harms Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Human Rights Act and An Act respecting the mandatory reporting of Internet child pornography by persons who provide an Internet service and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts\">C\u201163</a>, le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral a regroup\u00e9 cela avec ses lois orwelliennes de censure anti-libert\u00e9 d'expression pour faire exactement ce que fait actuellement la secr\u00e9taire parlementaire, c'est-\u00e0-dire affirmer que si nous ne faisons pas confiance au gouvernement, qui souhaite instrumentaliser le Tribunal canadien des droits de la personne avec un seuil plus bas et plus flou pour les discours dits haineux, nous acceptons donc l'exploitation sexuelle des enfants, ce qui n'est pas le cas.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8902511\" data-originallang=\"en\">La secr\u00e9taire parlementaire va-t-elle clarifier les choses d\u00e8s maintenant, en indiquant que l'article 13 de la Loi canadienne sur les droits de la personne ne sera pas r\u00e9introduit sous pr\u00e9texte de lutter contre les pr\u00e9judices en ligne, et qu'il ne viendra pas censurer les discours canadiens en ligne?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/10/8/andrew-lawton-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/andrew-lawton/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4738/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13167715",
"h1": {
"en": "Adjournment Proceedings",
"fr": "Motion d'ajournement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canadian Heritage",
"fr": "Le patrimoine canadien"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/10/8/",
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}