Canada

Fuck everything about this bill. I wrote my MP a few weeks back and heard nothing.

From the party that kept trying to push censorship laws, is anyone surprised?

Michael Geist will keep making articles until Canadians learn.

I keep expecting that at any moment the prime minister will become aware of what ended up in the text, the government will back down in shame, and the bill will be withdrawn and never seen again. But even if they do recognize the need to do that — as previous governments did with similar legislation that wasn't as appallingly bad as this bill — I suppose it will take a few months. Let it be a constant annoyance to them until that time.

If this bill gets through house and senate , the only hope is the GG refuses to give royal assent.

People and gentlepeople, if you've never called or written a member of government before, it is surprisingly simple.

And sometimes effective.

Trying to write each and ever MP and senator is affect change is unlikely.

If we all focus on pleading, begging, demanding, the GG do what is her constitutional duty and refuse to give this bill, in any form, the royal assent it requires to become law.

https://www.gg.ca/en/contact-us/questions-comments

https://www.gg.ca/en/contact-us/contact-information

From our constitution:

Royal Assent to Bills, etc.

55 Where a Bill passed by the Houses of the Parliament is presented to the Governor General for the Queen’s Assent, he shall declare, according to his Discretion, but subject to the Provisions of this Act and to Her Majesty’s Instructions, either that he assents thereto in the Queen’s Name, or that he withholds the Queen’s Assent, or that he reserves the Bill for the Signification of the Queen’s Pleasure.