The purgatory prime minister has put Canada in a precarious position, but at least no more of his bad ideas can be churned out of Parliament

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By proroguing Parliament on Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have just sabotaged the fate of our relationship with the United States. But this, at very least, came with a happy side-effect: he also sabotaged the progressive legislative agenda that’s overtaken both houses of government.

In other words, a whole bunch of bad bills just died. Good riddance.

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The online harms (censorship) bill? Dead.

The Liberals were already backing off Bill C-63, having announced in early December that the hulking piece of legislation would be split in two in hopes of making at least parts of it into law. Now, the whole thing is off the table. It’s mostly good news: the draft online harms law would have subjected social media companies operating in Canada to a new government bureaucracy in the name of “safety.” Moreover, it would have introduced the vague crime of “hate crime” and tasked the Canadian Human Rights Commission with regulating comments online.

Now, this also means the death of the parts of C-63 that worked to crack down on child sexual abuse online, but even that had its flaws.

Also dead is that bill that would have made thousands of people around the world eligible for Canadian citizenship.