(LifeSiteNews) – One of Canada’s leading constitutional law experts warned that Canada will be a “police state by Christmas” if lawmakers pass three new bills introduced by the federal Liberal government of Prime Minister Mark Carney.
In a recent video posted to X, Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) president John Carpay was direct in his assessment of the three Liberal bills, warning of a future Canada under true totalitarianism.
“Canada will be a police state by Christmas if Parliament passes bills C2, C8, and C9 in their current form,” he said. “C2 is the Strong Borders Act. It should be called the Strong Surveillance Act. It empowers Canada Post to open letter mail without a warrant. It criminalizes the use of cash in amounts greater than $10,000.”
Carpay warned that Bill C-2 “empowers a vast army of government officials, not just police, to conduct warrantless searches of the computers and cell phones of Canadians. It is a massive invasion of privacy. It’s extremely dangerous.”
Bill C-2, which looks to ban cash donations over $10,000, was earlier blasted by the JCCF as a “step towards tyranny.” This bill would allow police and government officials to open and examine personal mail and has many areas that may impact Canadians’ charter rights.
Carpay said that Bill C-9, as written, is “going to result in many more Canadians getting prosecuted, not over something that they’ve done, but on the basis of something that they have said or written.”
“Bill C-9, the Combating Hate Act, gets rid of an existing requirement that hate speech prosecutions need to be reviewed by the Attorney General and it also gives judges authority to impose much longer sentences, jail sentences on people if the judge feels that hate was part of the motivation in the commission of the crime,” he said. “Bill C-9 still does a terrible job of defining the emotion of hate, and so there’s lots of discretion left in subjective feelings of police officers, Crown prosecutors, and judges.”
Bill C-9, the Combating Hate Act, has been blasted by constitutional experts as allowing empowered police and the government to go after those it deems have violated a person’s “feelings” in a “hateful” way.
Bill C-9 was brought forth in the House of Commons on September 19 by Justice Minister Sean Fraser. The Liberals have boasted that the bill will make it a crime for people to block the entrance to, or intimidate people from attending, a church or other place of worship, a school, or a community center. The bill would also make it a crime to promote so-called hate symbols and would, in effect, ban the display of certain symbols such as the Nazi flag.
Carpay warned that with Bill C-9 “(y)ou’re going to see a digital safety commission with a vast army of bureaucrats to enforce federal regulations that are passed in respect of the internet and internet contents.”
The reality with Bill C-8, Carpay said, is “politicians never take away our rights and freedoms without offering a nice-sounding pretext. And so we’ve got the federal government saying that we need Bill C-8, the Cybersecurity Act, to protect us from hackers, ransomware fraudsters, malicious cyber actors, and hostile state actors. Now, and of course, the sacrosanct national security and public safety, which of course every Canadian supports.”
Bill C-8 was introduced in June by Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree and has a provision in which the federal government could stop “any specified person” from accessing the internet.
As reported by LifeSiteNews, People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier warned that this bill would empower the government to ban anyone’s internet access as a “digital guillotine” designed to “silence critics.”
Carpay warned that Bill C-8 is “hacking into someone else’s computer system causing damage are already a criminal offenses.”
“The powers are there already for the government simply to enforce the criminal code. Giving the federal government, giving federal cabinet ministers power to kick Canadians off the internet is not necessary for protecting public safety or defending our national security,” he said.
“Our freedoms are fragile. It’s imperative that every Canadian contact their member of parliament, whether your MP is Liberal, Conservative, NDP, Bloc, or Green, it does not matter. Contact your member of parliament and tell him or her to vote against bills C2, C8, C9, and tell them not to bring back the Online Harms Act.”
As for Carney, he has globalist ties and was called the World Economic Forum’s “golden boy” by CPC leader Pierre Poilievre. Carney has also admitted he is an “elitist” and a “globalist.”
His government has continued to push laws impeding Canadians’ rights and freedoms as did his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.
