Because otherwise this smells like sensationalism to me. Hate is already defined in Canadian law wrt hate crimes, btw, and that predates the Trudeau-monster by decades.
In a world with better options I'd never vote Liberal, but since the Conservatives can't seem to come up with a coherent environmental plan to save their lives (and have abandoned what was originally their carbon tax plan because "The Liberals like it so it must be bad"), and the best leader they can come up with was encouraging people to buy crypto right before it crashed, they still seem like the better option. And I say this with a sour taste in my mouth.
What's your take?
If it does have a material global impact on carbon emissions it will only be a result of somehow shaming other countries to reduce their own emissions. While I can’t find any estimate of how much the carbon tax will reduce emissions, our empty country only has 1.89% to work with. So the forest fires are not going to stop as a result of the tax alone.
I suspect what will happen is other countries will innovate their way out of the problem while Canadians embrace pointless atonement leaving the country weaker and poorer as a result.
I know what you're saying about our contribution to emissions, but I feel like the most basic principle of good faith when you're trying to get another party to do something like this is to deal with your own shit first, otherwise it's just hypocrisy. Every country in the world can look at their own contributions and say "well, most of it isn't our fault, so why should we fix it until somebody else does?". Rightly or wrongly, Canada likes to think of itself as a world leader, so let's put our big boy pants on and step up.
If you obliterate 30% of every news media's revenue you make them even more dependent on the Liberals funding them. This is on top of the existing "Support Canadian Journalism" fund that the Liberal government distributes in a completely "unbiased" way.
Put simply: Trudeau wants absolute control of Canadian media. Bill C-18 is the first of three to achieve this objective. This grants them more control by making them the major source of income for all media. The next one will be about funding Canadian content (which the Liberals will define and select). The last will be about censoring and de-platforming hate (which they will also define and select). When Trudeau is done - and he will finish because the NDP will support him no matter what - Canada's media landscape will look something like a blend between North Korea and China.