Policing dissent could become easier if some of Rouleau\u0027s recommendations are implemented
Parliament will also need to consider this question in the near future, as the Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of the Emergency is due to present its own final report on March 31. Additionally, it will need to assess the recommendations of the Rouleau Commission, which include some breathtaking suggestions related to the policing of dissent in Canada, some of which would empower the government to use its emergency powers more liberally in the future.
When translated into plain English, Rouleau’s bland and soothing words become an endorsement of the most incendiary Liberal initiatives of recent memory, namely a plan in a forthcoming bill to censor the internet in the name of combatting “online harms.” This would be on top of Bill C-11, which would grant the CRTC extensive powers to censor social media in the name of promoting Canadian content.
Even more troubling than the report’s insipid endorsement of censorship is its manifest support for the government’s desire that it be much easier for it to declare public order emergencies in the future. Rouleau dutifully recited the reassuring litany that emergency powers should be exceptionally rare. However, his slipshod analysis of the threshold for declaring a public order emergency creates a dangerous precedent by lowering the bar to new depths.
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