Poilievre condemns Liberals’ online harms bill as assault on free speech
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Justin Trudeau’s looming crackdown on online “hate speech” is a “woke authoritarian” tool used to censor opinions he doesn’t like.
“We will oppose Justin Trudeau’s latest attack on freedom of expression,” Poilievre said at a press conference Wednesday in response to a question from True North’s Andrew Lawton.
Poilievre posed a question of his own.
“What does Justin Trudeau mean when he says the worst hate speech?” he said rhetorically. “He means speech he hates.”
“What does Justin Trudeau mean when he says the word hate speech? He means speech he hates.”
True North’s @AndrewLawton asks Pierre Poilievre whether the Conservatives will oppose the Trudeau government’s reintroduction of the online harms bill. pic.twitter.com/7PM9iJ5rzs
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) February 21, 2024
Poilievre proceeded to list numerous examples of things labelled as hate speech by Trudeau, including when former adviser Gerald Butts said that it was hate speech to criticize Trudeau for using the term “peoplekind,” labelling those who made fun of Trudeau as “nazis.”
