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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2025-06-12 15:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Andrew Lawton (Elgin\u2014St. Thomas\u2014London South, CPC)",
"fr": "Andrew Lawton (Elgin\u2014St. Thomas\u2014London-Sud, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"8848926\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, baseless smears like that are why the Liberals cannot be trusted to regulate speech in this country. For years, the Liberal government has been determined to censor what Canadians see and say online, from Bill <a data-HoCid=\"11528728\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-11/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts\">C-11</a>, which put the Liberals in control of YouTube algorithms, to Bill <a data-HoCid=\"11668222\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-18/\" title=\"An Act respecting online communications platforms that make news content available to persons in Canada\">C-18</a>, which squeezed out small and independent media, and their thought crime bill, 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>. Now we have learned through the National Post that the cabinet ministers over there are all clamouring over who gets to be responsible for the latest online censorship law.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8848927\" data-originallang=\"en\">Will the minister who gets to censor what Canadians say please reveal themselves now?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"8848926\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, ce sont des calomnies sans fondement comme celles-ci qui font que l'on ne peut pas faire confiance aux lib\u00e9raux pour ce qui est de r\u00e9glementer la libert\u00e9 d'expression dans notre pays. Depuis des ann\u00e9es, le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral est d\u00e9termin\u00e9 \u00e0 censurer ce que les Canadiens voient et disent en ligne, du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"11528728\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-11/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts\">C\u201111</a>, qui a permis aux lib\u00e9raux d'exercer un contr\u00f4le sur les algorithmes de YouTube, au projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"11668222\" href=\"/bills/44-1/C-18/\" title=\"An Act respecting online communications platforms that make news content available to persons in Canada\">C\u201118</a>, qui a \u00e9vinc\u00e9 les petits m\u00e9dias ind\u00e9pendants, en passant par leur projet de loi sur les crimes par la pens\u00e9e, c'est-\u00e0-dire le projet de loi <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 <em>National Post</em> nous apprend maintenant que les ministres du Cabinet se disputent tous pour savoir qui sera responsable de la loi la plus r\u00e9cente sur la censure en ligne.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"8848927\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le ministre qui va censurer les propos des Canadiens va-t-il enfin r\u00e9v\u00e9ler son identit\u00e9?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2025/6/12/andrew-lawton-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/andrew-lawton/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4738/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13095626",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canadian Heritage",
"fr": "Le patrimoine canadien"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2025/6/12/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2025%2F6%2F12%2F"
}
}