In The Mail

One of SDA’s regulars sent me the following message today:

What follows is a news letter from the People’s Party. They have raised a valid point that none of our Political Parties have touched: once truth is prohibited, a nation can no longer be considered a democracy.

“You’ve probably heard about the Assembly of First Nations passing an emergency resolution demanding that the government make residential school “denialism” a criminal offence.
Grand Chief Garrison Settee believes that demanding evidence of unmarked graves should be considered “residential school denialism” and made into a hate crime.

But here’s the problem: at sites like the one in Kamloops, ground-penetrating radar flagged anomalies that the tribe itself said it “suspects” are unmarked graves.

No excavations have been done. No bodies have been found. And yet, asking for proof could soon land you in prison.

People can lie, but we are not obliged to believe their lies. We are free to tell the truth. That is not hatred.

Section 2 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects freedom of conscience, thought, belief, opinion, and expression.

These rights exist for ideas that the government finds inconvenient, wrong, or threatening.

A right that only protects approved opinions is not a right. It’s a permission slip.

Give the government the power to declare one historical interpretation criminal, and you’ve given it the power to declare any interpretation criminal.

If a historical claim is as strong as its defenders believe, it wins in open debate.

If it needs the Criminal Code to win, that says something about the confidence of the case, not the guilt of the dissenter.

The answer to an argument you hate is a better argument, not a subpoena.

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9 Replies to “In The Mail”

You meant to say it was a Conservative Party of Canada newsletter, right? Because our Official Opposition would have to be all over that kind of outrageous overreach in a heartbeat.

(they would, right??)

Give the government the power to declare one historical interpretation criminal, and you’ve given it the power to declare any interpretation criminal.

Give the government the power to declare a man can ‘become’ a woman … and you’ve given it the power to erase reality … and force you to believe it.

Here’s my prediction. This issue will go to the supreme court and if sanity loses the country is fully done. Seriously how can you recover from forced belief in a big like this?

Pretty words. Now try claiming the Holocaust didn’t happen, in public, and see what happens to you.

The But Muh Free Speech ship sailed a long time ago. The Siberian ex-pats wouldn’t be trying this if there weren’t already a convenient, tested legal template for them to copy. They’re going to ram this through somehow and much like publication bans, there will be lots more in short order.

The country’s lost. Get out while you can.

I can’t see a way forward if the gov’t of Canada criminalizes dissent.

I already have a religion, a belief system, I doubt the gov’t of Canada is prepared to impose their own belief system (which they played a major role in imposing) on those who deny it. That’s a bridge too far.

It’s telling that only an unelectable party can be honest about standing up to the Indian supremacists and their inverted apartheid demands. On this hill, the people are getting fed up with the pandering, funding and enabling of the supremacists even if the political class still cowers.