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FIRST READING: The worst-case scenarios that Carney's 'social media ban' could enable

Ottawa could get sweeping powers to decide who's able to use the internet, and even what AI chatbots are allowed to say

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Of late, Canada has a bit of a history of adopting nice-sounding policy, only for said policy to immediately yield an avalanche of unintended consequences.

Ottawa legalized assisted suicide in 2016 with the promise that it would only apply to the terminally ill and be subject to strict checks on eligibility. Ten years later, MAID has killed tens of thousands more Canadians than its planners anticipated, and yielded scores of examples in which patients were prescribed death in lieu of treatment.   

In 2019, the B.C. Legislative Assembly unanimously passed DRIPA, a 2019 bill enshrining the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People into law. Despite explicit assurances that the bill wouldn’t be used to override existing laws or impose an Indigenous veto on government action, that’s exactly what started to happen in late 2025.

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