(CBC) The Bloc Québécois leader is promising political consequences if the Liberals back down from accepting his party’s controversial amendment that would remove a religious exemption for hate speech from the Criminal Code.
Speaking to reporters Thursday on Parliament Hill, Yves-François Blanchet said his party had a deal with the minority government Liberals to alter a section of Bill C-9 — dubbed the Combatting Hate Act.
The Criminal Code currently includes an exemption for hate speech “if, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text.”
