Cowards?

Life Site News reports that the Canadian Confederation Senate passed Bill C-9 (“Combating Hate Act”) by a 45-13 vote. To make it worse, two Senators abstained and a shocking 35 were not even present in the chambers to vote one way or another.

So much for “democracy.” Apparently a quorum was present, but that meant that only 58 of 93 Senators were present. Is it not reasonable to assume that those 35 missing Senators were afraid to say anything?

The bill passed 186-137 in the House of Commons in March, as the result of a nasty (our opinion) brokered deal between the “liberty-loving” Liberal Party and the Bloc Québécois (“we won’t secede from Canada as long as we get our way and the other provinces (especially Alberta) give us the welfare we demand”). As we understand it, the victorious Senators and the advocates of hate in the galleries applauded and cheered this “victory.”

That is disgusting.

But the point of this commentary is that more than a third of Canadian Senators apparently are too cowardly to state what they believe about such things. Whether they support this egregious assault on the fundamental freedoms of Canadians or not, do not the people they claim to serve and represent have some right to know where they stand? And, keeping in mind anti-liberty nonsense as seen in the US, UK, and the Weimar Republic, how many of the 45 who voted for it were suborned, bought off, or fearful for their lives and those of their families?

The bill will in effect criminalize quoting certain Bible verses (exact ones still to be determined by judges, apparently) which promote “hate” and may offend someone. The law had included an exemption for hate speech, “if, 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.” This is, of course, in the eyes of a judge: apparently hate speech can include quoting such verses as John 14:15 (Jesus said, “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”) since this is translated as “God will hate you if you don’t obey His commandments.” We would not be surprised, given the general mentality of too many judges (both Stateside and North of the Border) to find a preacher guilty of hate speech when he presides over marrying couple and quotes Genesis 2:24: “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” Because that obviously excludes same-sex marriage and does not recognize 10,000 genders.

(We’d like to think that maybe these cowards were people who think that taking the right of free speech away from anyone is wrong. But are too afraid of the Tranzi (“regressive”) powers-that-be to stand up and be heard. That would have defeated it by a 48-45 vote. We dream…)

We can also quote Star Wars:

It is no surprise that Alberta (and other provinces) are looking to find at least a little more liberty in other ways. (Image courtesy of RebelNews.CA.)

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (their equivalent of the US Bill of Rights) is pretty clear in Section 2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.

But Canadian justices are (based on recent decisions) as cowardly as the 35 Senators, and probably are the sort of regressive types in the leadership of the so-called Liberals and the Bloc? And as even a contributor to Wickedpedia notes, “in practice the Charter permits the government to enforce “reasonable” limits censoring speech. Hate speech, obscenity, and defamation are common categories of restricted speech in Canada.”

Is Canada even as free as someplace like Russia, Ukraine, or Iran? Sure, their cops are more polite (we understand) and may even apologize both before and after the rubber hose treatment. (Do we understand that there are rubber tips on the hobnails of their jackboots?)

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Source: https://freedombunker.com/2026/06/10/cowards/