Freedom of speech, my (censored due to publication standards)
At the same time Saudi Arabia was condemning the terrorist attacks in Paris, they were also giving Raif Badawi the first of the 1,000 lashes he’s been sentenced to, alongside 10 years in prison. His crime was “insulting Islam” through his online writing that was critical of the government.
Canada remains buddies with the brutal regime— in fact the Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) awarded two contracts worth $14.8-billion to a Canadian company during the 2013-14 fiscal year to supply Saudi Arabia with military armoured vehicles.
What’s freedom of speech when we can create jobs for Canadians?
In the spirit of the slain Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, we should look at the steaming pile of hypocrisy that comes from politicians who like photo ops about freedom of speech, but nothing more.
On Canadian soil, there’s the fact that Quebec almost passed a law that would forbid public sector employees from wearing religious items— anything from a cross to a hijab or more. It was thankfully defeated, but that it was even considered shows how little “freedom of expression” means to many politicians here.
Or there’s how Alberta blocked environmental groups from oilsands hearings — a move that in 2013 Justice R.P. Marceau deemed illegal.
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