Stop the Speech Police, Defeat Bill C-34

The PPC Newsletter - June 14, 2026

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Last week, the Carney government launched its latest attack on free speech online. They call it stopping “harmful” content. I call it censorship.

Bill C-34 creates a new bureaucracy: the Digital Safety Commission of Canada.

Its job? To police what you say and read online.

Under the guise of “protecting children,” this bill forces social media platforms and AI companies to “mitigate exposure” to vague, subjective terms like “content that foments hatred.”

The Act defines that as “content that expresses detestation or vilification” of an individual or group of individuals based on prohibited grounds of discrimination. But courts have always required “hatred” to be extreme.

This new definition does not include the term "extreme," contrary to case law. The government therefore broadens the definition of "hatred.”

And now, “detestation” and “vilification” won’t be decided by judges. They’ll be decided by unelected bureaucrats and scared tech employees facing $10 million fines.

Social media companies and AI companies concerned about facing fines will likely err on the side of censoring more expression by blocking it or filtering it out.

Most shockingly, the bill would censor the output of artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT to ensure they don’t give “harmful” answers on sensitive topics.

The result?

AI chatbots that would refuse honest answers on unpopular perspectives.

And a sanitized internet where people cannot have difficult conversations and debates on subjects not politically correct, like it happened during the COVID hysteria.

And then there’s “age verification.”

To keep kids under 16 off social media, the bill would force platforms to verify your age. That means requiring all adults to provide a driver’s license to create an account.

Let me be clear: the People’s Party of Canada will always support protecting children from real harm. But “safety” does not mean censorship.

This is not a child safety bill. It is a control bill.

A free and democratic society protects speech that is distasteful, unpopular, or contrary to the mainstream. Without that, democracy dies.

We will not trade liberty for the illusion of safety.

We will not let Ottawa become the online speech police.

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