Minister of Justice [5], Sean Fraser, introduced [3] Bill C-9 [6.1], titled “An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places)” [6.2], or the “Combatting Hate Act” [6.3], which, among other things [6], aims [7] to criminalize [6.4.3] the public display of symbols “principally used by, or principally associated with, a listed entity” [6.4.1], and the Nazi swastika [6.4.2].

Here is the text of the bill [6], and here is a video of the announcement [4].

References
  1. Type: Webpage. Title: “An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places)”. Publisher: “Parliament of Canada”. Published: 2025-09-19. Accessed: 2025-09-20T01:23Z. URI: https://www.parl.ca/LegisInfo/en/bill/45-1/C-9.
    1. Type: Text. Location (XPath): /html/body/main/div/section[1]/header/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/a
    2. Type: Misc. Accessed: 2025-09-20T01:58Z.

  2. Type: Document (File (Filetype: PDF)). Title: “WHAT’S IN A BILL?”. Publisher: “Senate of Canada”. Accessed: 2025-09-20T01:33Z. URI: https://sencanada.ca/media/367004/com_wksht_sengage_whats-in-a-bill_e.pdf.
    • Type: Text. Location: §“The Bill’s Progress”>§“WHO SPONSORED THE BILL?”.

      The senator or MP who introduces a bill in their respective chamber is called the sponsor.

  3. Type: Meta. Accessed: 2025-09-20T02:52Z.
    • Bill C-9 was sponsored (ie introduced [2]) by the Minister of Justice [1.1][4].
  4. Type: Video. Title: “Liberals’ new hate crime bill targets ‘symbols’ of hate”. Author: “The Canadian Press”. Publisher: “YouTube”. Published: 2025-09-19T23:07:22Z. Accessed: 2025-09-20T01:32Z. URI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if78GGwNyWQ.
  5. Type: Webpage. Title: “The Honourable Sean Fraser”. Publisher: “Parliament of Canada”. Accessed: 2025-09-20T01:37Z. URI: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/sean-fraser(88316).
    • Type: Text. Location: §“Offices and Roles as a Parliamentarian”.

      […]Minister of Justice[…]

  6. Type: Document. Title: [“Bill C-9”, “An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places)”, “Combatting Hate Act”]. Publisher: “Parliament of Canada”. Published: 2025-09-19. Accessed: 2025-09-20T01:39Z. URI: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-9/first-reading.
    1. Type: Text. Location: Title.

      BILL C-9

    2. Type: Text. Location: Title.

      An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places)

    3. Type: Text. Location: §“Short Title”.

      […]This Act may be cited as the Combatting Hate Act.

    4. Type: Text. Location: §“Criminal Code”.>§4.
      1. Type: Text.

        […] Everyone commits an offence who wilfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group by displaying, in any public place, […] a symbol that is principally used by, or principally associated with, a listed entity […]

      2. Type: Text.

        […] Everyone commits an offence who wilfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group by displaying, in any public place, […] the Nazi swastika […].

      3. Type: Text. Location: §“Punishment”.
  7. Type: Meta. Accessed: 2025-09-20T01:56Z.
    • “Aims” is used as the bill has yet to be passed — it has only completed its first reading [1.2[8]].
  8. Type: Article. Title: “Legislative Process”. Publisher: “Parliament of Canada”. Accessed: 2025-09-20T02:02Z. URI: https://www.ourcommons.ca/procedure/our-procedure/LegislativeProcess/c_g_legislativeprocess-e.html.
    • Type: Text. Location: §“Stages in the Legislative Process”.
  • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Fair point. Human endeavors operate a lot by habits and mental models though. People generally will push back harder against government censorship when it happens if they’ve already got it firmly in mind that “hate speech” is a bullshit category that needs not to exist. Once you start to say that hate speech shouldn’t be allowed for example on Substack (which I think is the majority view now), it becomes a lot easier for the government to ban it (which I think is precisely what’s happening, both in the US and in Canada apparently).