{"id":20853,"date":"2013-06-27T09:15:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T14:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20853"},"modified":"2013-06-27T09:15:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T14:15:50","slug":"section-13-repealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/section-13-repealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Section 13 repealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In all the news from the US yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.canoe.ca\/lilleyspad\/general\/a-long-batte-but-section-13-is-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">this little civil liberties tidbit<\/a> got pushed off the front page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As I write this I am still only being updated by text message on the proceedings in the Senate chamber but I am told Bill C-304 has passed third reading and will receive Royal Assent tonight making it law.<\/p>\n<p>What does this bill do?<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of amendments to the act that help limit abuse but the main one is this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Section 13 of the Act is repealed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To put it bluntly, the means you can\u2019t take someone through the federal human rights apparatus over hurt feelings via a blog post or a Facebook comment.<\/p>\n<p>Now the bill is passed and will become law but like many acts of Parliament it will not come into force for a year.<\/p>\n<p>Still after a long hard battle to restore free speech in Canada, this is a victory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all the news from the US yesterday, this little civil liberties tidbit got pushed off the front page: As I write this I am still only being updated by text message on the proceedings in the Senate chamber but I am told Bill C-304 has passed third reading and will receive Royal Assent tonight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,10,28],"tags":[186,46,238,553],"class_list":["post-20853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","category-liberty","category-media","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-hrcs","tag-offensensitivity","tag-senate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5ql","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20855,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853\/revisions\/20855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}