Canada's Descent into Authoritarianism: Bill C-9 and the Rise of Thought Police

CANADA'S NEW THOUGHT POLICE - LIBERAL PARTY OF CANADA

December 28th, 2025

by: Jason LaFace

Dear fellow Canadians,

As we near the end of 2025, with Christmas just passed and a new year looming, our nation faces one of the gravest threats to freedom in its history. Bill C-9, misleadingly named the "Combatting Hate Act," is not a shield against genuine hatred or violence. It is a dangerous expansion of state power that risks transforming Canada into a society where thoughts, words, and beliefs are policed like in the United Kingdom, Australia, and even communist China. This bill represents a massive government overreach, eroding our Charter-protected rights to free expression, religion, and assembly. If passed in its current form, it could mark the beginning of a slide toward a communist-style dictatorship, where dissent is criminalized under the guise of "combatting hate."

Introduced in September 2025, Bill C-9 amends the Criminal Code in ways that should alarm every freedom-loving Canadian. Key provisions include:

• Codifying a broader definition of "hatred": The bill defines hatred as an emotion involving "detestation or vilification" stronger than mere disdain or dislike. This lowers the threshold from Supreme Court precedents, which required "extreme" and "intense" manifestations of detestation. Critics, including legal experts and civil liberties groups, warn this vagueness could capture legitimate debate, criticism, or even strongly worded opinions on controversial topics like immigration, gender ideology, or foreign policy.

• Removing Attorney General consent for prosecutions: For decades, hate propaganda charges required oversight from the Attorney General to prevent abuse. Bill C-9 eliminates this safeguard, allowing police to lay charges directly. This opens the door to politically motivated prosecutions, overcharging to force pleas, and harassment of dissenting voices.

• New offenses for "intimidation" and obstruction: The bill creates crimes for actions near schools, places of worship, or community centers that provoke "fear" or obstruct access. While proponents claim it targets real threats, the language is so broad it could criminalize peaceful protests—think pro-life demonstrations outside clinics, parental rights rallies near schools, or even heated public debates.

• Banning display of "hate symbols": A new offense for publicly displaying symbols associated with terrorism or hate, with vague application that could extend to political symbols in protests.

Most shockingly, in early December 2025, the justice committee—through a Bloc Québécois amendment backed by Liberals—removed the long-standing defense for good-faith religious expressions. This exemption protected sincere beliefs based on religious texts. Now, quoting scripture on marriage, gender, or moral issues could be prosecuted as "willful promotion of hatred" if deemed to vilify a group. Pastors, priests, imams, and everyday believers risk jail for faithfully teaching their faith. This isn't about stopping violence—Canada already has strong laws against threats, assault, and incitement. This is about control: silencing conservatives, Christians, traditionalists, and anyone challenging the dominant progressive narrative.

Parallels to the UK and Australia: A Chilling Effect on Free Speech

Look abroad for warnings. In the United Kingdom, vague hate speech laws have led to thousands of arrests annually for "offensive" online posts or even silent prayer near abortion clinics. Police investigate "non-crime hate incidents," logging complaints about words that hurt feelings, creating a database of "thought criminals." Citizens self-censor, fearing a knock on the door for wrongthink.

Australia has ramped up hate speech regulations, with strict online rules and penalties for content deemed harmful. Protests displaying certain symbols or slogans face swift crackdowns, even if peaceful. Authorities prioritize "hate" enforcement over actual crime, fostering an environment where public discourse is sanitized and dissent marginalized.

Bill C-9 mirrors these trends, but goes further by targeting religious belief directly. Experts like law professor Bruce Pardy have warned it puts Canada on the UK's path, where arrests for social media posts number in the tens of thousands yearly.

Echoes of Communist China: Toward a Surveillance State Dictatorship

The most alarming comparison is to communist regimes like China, where the CCP employs "thought police" to enforce ideological conformity. Under China's social credit system and vague national security laws, citizens are monitored, punished, or disappeared for criticizing the party, expressing religious views contrary to state atheism, or posting "harmful" content online. Dissent on issues like Taiwan, Uyghur rights, or even COVID policies leads to re-education camps or prison.

Bill C-9 imports similar dynamics: vague definitions weaponized against unpopular views, removal of oversight, and stripping religious protections. In China, the state decides acceptable thought; here, activists and bureaucrats could do the same, targeting traditional values on family, life, or biology. This isn't hyperbole—removing defenses for religious texts risks prosecuting believers for core doctrines, much like China's persecution of Christians, Falun Gong, or Muslims.

Canada, once a beacon of liberty, now risks becoming a soft dictatorship where the government polices morality under "hate" pretexts.

The Hidden Hand: Corporate Globalists Manipulating Canada's Politics

Who drives this? Not grassroots Canadians concerned about safety. This agenda stems from corporate globalists—Big Tech, multinational NGOs, UN-aligned bodies, and WEF influencers—who've infiltrated our institutions. Through lobbying, funding activist groups, and aligning with Liberal governments (and now cross-party support), they've pushed for "inclusivity" frameworks that prioritize global ideologies over national sovereignty and traditional freedoms.

International pressures, like UN hate speech initiatives or WEF "stakeholder" models, echo in Bill C-9's broad scope. Elite-funded organizations amplify "hate crime" narratives while ignoring enforcement of existing laws against real violence. They've manipulated Canada's political system, turning Parliament into a vehicle for transnational agendas that erode borders, family values, and free speech.

Ordinary Canadians—farmers, workers, parents, believers—pay the price: silenced for questioning mass immigration, gender policies in schools, or corporate capture of government.

A Call to Action: Defend Canada Before It's Too Late

Bill C-9 is stalled amid controversy, with committee delays and internal Liberal disputes. But pressure mounts to pass it. We cannot allow this overreach.

True hate—violence, threats—must be condemned and prosecuted under existing laws. But criminalizing thought, faith, and protest is the hallmark of tyranny.

It be wise for Canadians to mobilize for another mass protest, one that would make the Freedom Convoy a prelude to a historic protest on Canadian streets. Demand rejection of Bill C-9. Rally your church, community, and family. Stand for the Canada our ancestors built: free, tolerant of disagreement, and sovereign. If Canadians stand still, take no actions, Canada will be lost. Nobody to blame but ourselves.

If we surrender now, future generations will live under the shadow of thought police.

In defense of liberty and truth, it's time to fight, it's time to hit the streets.

A Concerned Conservative Canadian