This is John Bachelor, discussing with my colleague Charles Burton the new proposed law in Canada,

the Online Harm Act, it's to be debated, read several times to Parliament, read several times to the Senate.

It has a difficult path.

I discover, however, the Unlime Harms Act has in it what is straight up political censorship.

If you're out of step with the administration government

regime in power, you can be accused and convicted

and in this case the penalty can be

up to long imprisonment, maybe even life imprisonment.

Charles Burton describes this very carefully because I ask him an example of the what would have happened to that freedom

convoy of 22-23.

How would those men and women have been treated under the Online Harms Act?

Charles answers bluntly.

Is Charles Burton on the Online Harm Act proposed for the people of Canada. More of this later.

Oh, it is politically. That is the issue really is the censorship of people's ability

to express online views that the government regards as unacceptable

put into the category of foments hatred or incites violence.

So you know the idea is that the social media

companies would be required to prevent this information from from getting

into the public domain. And that is really a violation of the liberal principles that make democracies what

they are.

Those truck drivers all would have been vulnerable to this law then because they were all expressing

dissent.

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