Portraying a group of people as violent online – or comparing them to vermin, excrement or animals – could trigger a probe under the Canadian Human Rights Act, according to new provisions in the online harms bill, the Justice Department says. But the bill sets a “high bar” for what would count as hate speech and it would not include offensive or humiliating comments or remarks expressing dislike, disdain or political dissent, according to a background briefing by federal public servants on the bill. The government’s long-awaited online harms bill would put back a provision in the Canadian Human Rights...
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