How Should Democracies Regulate Speech Online?

The Centre for Free Expression has joined with 23 other organizations and 34 individual experts to call on Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne to split the proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA) from the omnibus Bill C-27 in which it is currently embedded so it can be returned to the parliamentary committee for proper consideration – something it has not had to date.

In Parliament, the Liberal government of Canada has introduced the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63). Arif Virani, the minister of justice, introduced the bill in the House of Commons on February 26, 2024.