Crazy Jewish Canada: NDP bill would prescribe jail terms for speaking well of fossil fuels

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[Sheer lunacy. Jan]

A private member’s bill introduced by longtine NDP MP Charlies Angus would criminalize support for or even favourable mention of fossil fuels. This latest madman’s jump down the road of thought control is not surprising. There is a remarkable hostility on the left to free speech. First, after years of lobbying, in 1971, the Canadian Jewish Congress persuaded Pierre Trudeau to introduce the notorious "hate law", Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code. Then, in 2022, shamefully with all party support, the Jewish lobby got Parliament to impose a new state religion. You cannot dispute or deny the so-called holocaust or you could face two years in prison. Emboldened by such thought control, elements of the Indian lobby have urged questioning the tall and unproven tales of atrocities at the residential schools (remember, Kamloops 216 possible unmarked graves still not examined more than two years after the initial yellow press headlines.) :"Canada’s justice minister is considering options raised by the independent adviser on unmarked graves, who says Indigenous leaders want Canada to move on criminalizing residential school denialism.Kimberly Murray called on lawmakers to consider “legal mechanisms” that could address the practice of denying or minimizing the abuses Indigenous children suffered at residential schools in her interim report released back in June.One way to do that is by amending the Criminal Code to criminalize such actions, Murray said in a recent interview, noting Ottawa did so last year on the issue of Holocaust denialism." (Global News, November 26, 2023) Our new Justice Ministeris Ugandan Asian import Arif Virani, who worked for the viciously anti-free speech Canadian Human Rights Commission. Now, NDPer Charlies Angus, a superannuated punk rocker — his group was the Grievous Angels — originally from Toronto — wants to criminalize praise or support for fossil fuels.

C-372, also known as the Fossil Fuel Advertising Act, was tabled Monday as a private member’s bill by NDP MP Charlie Angus

Author of the article: Tristin Hopper
Published Feb 07, 2024

Charlie AngusNDP Charlie Angus attends a news conference in October 2023. Photo by Adrian Wyld /THE CANADIAN PRESS

An NDP bill is seeking to criminalize the “promotion” of fossil fuels, and prescribe jail time even for Canadians who say scientifically true things such as how burning natural gas is cleaner than burning coal.

C-372, also known as the Fossil Fuel Advertising Act, was tabled Monday as a private member’s bill by Charlie Angus, the MP for Timmins-James Bay and a longtime member of the NDP caucus.

Article contentFSection 8 also criminalizes any “promotion” which argues that fossil fuels are beneficial to “the health of Canadians, reconciliation with Indigenous peoples or the Canadian or global economy.”

As such, the section could conceivably prescribe jail terms for anybody arguing that the oil and gas sector is a key funder of the Canadian health-care system, or even that oil and gas is needed to operate ambulances and MedEvac flights.

Similarly, Canadians would face sanction for saying that the extraction and selling of oil is a net contributor to the country’s economy — a claim that is actually made quite often by the federal government itself. “Oil and gas extraction is an important contributor to the Canadian economy,” reads a recent report by Statistics Canada.

The bill would also bring the hammer down on the ability of Canadian gas stations to hold contests or issue loyalty cards.

Bill C-372 would make it illegal for a retailer to “provide or offer to provide any consideration for the purchase of a fossil fuel.”

Any contest offering “free gas” would also be criminalized, under the bill’s prohibition on offers to “furnish or offer to furnish a fossil fuel without monetary consideration.”

Although the Trudeau government often uses catastrophic language to refer to the unchecked effects of climate change, Angus’s bill goes beyond the federal government’s usual messaging by claiming in a preamble that warming temperatures are an “existential threat” and that “protection of the environment is a valid use of the federal criminal law power.”

Nevertheless, there are exceptions.

Angus allows that movies, plays and musical performances would be allowed to “use or depict fossil fuels” or even show “the production of fossil fuels” — provided that the creator can prove that they have no links to an entity that “has as one of its purposes to promote fossil fuels.”

Canadians would also be allowed to express an “opinion, commentary or report in respect of fossil fuels” if similar guidelines are followed.