By Tyler Durden<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a move that should alarm anyone who is pro-free speech, members of Canada\u2019s Liberal Party have capitulated to pressure from Quebec\u2019s ultra-secular separatist party by voting to strip away a longstanding religious exemption from the country’s hate-speech laws <\/strong>as part of the draconian Bill C-9, also known as the so-called Combating Hate Act.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Canada\u2019s Criminal Code has long shielded good-faith religious expression<\/strong> with a clear exemption that speech is not hate propaganda \u201cif, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Tuesday evening, that protection was casually deleted at the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois insistence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n CBC<\/a> has the details on what happened next:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Progress appeared to stall after an initial committee meeting to go over the bill was abruptly cancelled last week. <\/strong>Three sources speaking to CBC News said the bill was held up because Justice Minister Sean Fraser\u2019s office brokered the deal with the Bloc without getting buy-in from the Prime Minister\u2019s Office. Tuesday’s meeting was scheduled last-minute after last week’s cancellation. The Bloc has long sought to remove the religious exemption, saying religion could be used as a cover for promoting hate<\/strong>, such as homophobia and antisemitism<\/strong>. Blanchet said his party would not support the bill without the amendment.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Conservatives immediately sounded the alarm. Canadian Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre warned on X that the amendment would \u201ccriminalize sections of the Bible, Qur\u2019an, Torah and other sacred texts.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Liberal-Bloc amendments to C-9 will criminalize sections of the Bible, Quran, Torah, and other sacred texts. At Tuesday\u2019s meeting, Conservative MP Andrew Lawton accused the Liberals and Bloc of mounting \u201ca full-scale assault on religious freedom.\u201d<\/strong> When the amendment passed anyway, Conservative members filibustered, forcing an adjournment before clause-by-clause study could be completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udea8 FULL ASSAULT ON RELIGION \ud83d\udea8 Canada\u2019s Justice Minister Fraser, scrambling to contain the fallout, claimed the change \u201cwill not criminalize faith\u201d <\/strong>and \u201cin no way, shape or form prevent a religious leader from reading their religious texts.\u201d Freedom of religion remains a Charter right, Fraser said\u2014as if repeating the obvious somehow negates the chilling effect of removing an explicit statutory shield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fraser went on to argue that the exemption is \u201credundant\u201d<\/strong> and that the government knows of no case in which it has ever led to an acquittal. One struggles to recall the last time the Carney government boasted about making a law stricter because the existing one had never actually been needed as a defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/standard.clergy_visiting_shrine_church_80.jpg?itok=3eS-4J_F\")
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Conservatives will oppose this latest Liberal assault on freedom of expression and religion.
Sign here. Defend religious freedom. Keep Liberal thought police out of your\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/WJXqUcMC8q<\/a> \u2014 Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) December 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n
After 8 hours inside the Justice Committee, Liberals and the Bloc pushed an amendment that moves Canada toward criminalizing religious belief itself, regardless of faith.
This is the red line.
Full Video Below pic.twitter.com\/FINeo9S8re<\/a> \u2014 Northern Perspective (@NorthrnPrspectv) December 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n