The federal government is introducing its long-awaited online harms legislation today, after its last attempt to tackle online hate died when the 2021 federal election was called.
The text of the legislation has not yet been made available, but its 46-word title indicates that it will involve changes to the Criminal Code, the Canadian Human Rights Act and laws that make reporting online child pornography mandatory.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said last week the bill is designed to protect children from being subjected to “hatred, to violence, to being bullied and seeing and being affected by terrible things online.”
What happened to the 2021 legislation?
In June of 2023, the federal
