Since 2021, members of every party have backed at least one bill curbing what Canadians are allowed to say.Photo by Tony Caldwell/Postmedia

FIRST READING: All the times the current Parliament has tried to limit free expression

Attempting to criminalize 'residential school denialism' is one of six bills since 2021 that have sought to control what Canadians can say

by · National Post

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Last week, the NDP’s Leah Gazan tabled a private member’s bill that effectively proposed to jail Canadians for having politically inadvisable opinions.

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