{"id":1936284,"date":"2023-05-23T12:46:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ontario-bill-would-banish-freedom-of-speech-from-lgbt-safety-zones\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T15:42:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T19:42:41","slug":"ontario-bill-would-banish-freedom-of-speech-from-lgbt-safety-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ontario-bill-would-banish-freedom-of-speech-from-lgbt-safety-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario bill to ban freedom of speech in LGBT &#8216;safety zones&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fontario-bill-would-banish-freedom-of-speech-from-lgbt-safety-zones%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1936284&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Canada&#8217;s Bill 94: The Dangerous Consequences of Unchecked Power<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>A bill introduced last month in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, would allow the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-ag-barr-authorizes-federal-prosecutors-to-pursue-substantial-allegations-of-voting-irregularities-before-2020-election-is-certified\/\" title=\"BREAKING: AG Barr Authorizes Federal Prosecutors to Pursue \"Substantial Allegations\" of Voting Irregularities Before 2020 Election is Certified\">attorney general<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ontario-bill-would-banish-freedom-of-speech-from-lgbt-safety-zones\/\" title=\"Ontario bill to ban freedom of speech in LGBT 'safety zones'.\">bring charges carrying fines<\/a> of up to $25,000 against those who say the wrong thing within 100 meters of a location the attorney general has designated as a \u201c2SLGBTQI+ community <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wildfires-in-calif-ore-pushed-by-high-winds-and-high-temperatures\/\" title=\"Wildfires in Calif., Ore. pushed by high winds and high temperatures\">safety zone<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bill 94, titled the \u201c2SLGBTQI+ Community Safety Zones Act,\u201d is a dangerous piece of legislation that gives the attorney general unfettered and unreviewable discretion to designate a location as a safety zone, charge someone with uttering the wrong words within 100 meters of that safety zone, and seek a fine of up to $25,000. The bill does not even define what \u201c2SLGBTQI+\u201d means or includes, leaving it up to the attorney general&#8217;s interpretation.<\/p>\n<h3>The Problem with Gender Identity<\/h3>\n<p>The class protected by this legislation is made up of persons whose \u201cinternal sense of self\u201d fits somewhere in an open-ended and ever-changing collection of categories. How is the attorney general supposed to know whether the requisite number of persons whose \u201cinternal sense of self\u201d is (or once was) associated with one (or more) of these undefined (and evolving) categories is gathering (or has gathered) at (or has been seen at) a particular location?<\/p>\n<p>Beyond these unknowns, there\u2019s an even more basic problem. The bill requires the attorney general, in making a safety zone designation, to attach labels to persons. But gender identity is, by its own convoluted definition, derived from self-perception and individual experience; it cannot be imposed upon a person by someone else. So shouldn\u2019t gender activists be denouncing this legislation?<\/p>\n<h3>The Unchecked Power of the Attorney General<\/h3>\n<p>Under this legislation, the attorney general has unlimited and unreviewable discretion to answer all of these questions \u2014 and many more besides \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed bill in Ontario, Canada would permit the attorney general to impose fines of up to $25,000 on individuals who make inappropriate comments within 100 meters of a designated &#8220;2SLGBTQI+ community safety zone.&#8221; The bill, titled &#8220;2SLGBTQI+ Community Safety Zone Act,&#8221; was introduced in the Legislative Assembly last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1746,"featured_media":1936285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7008,4439,5520,13202,8390,4554,11893],"class_list":["post-1936284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-ban","tag-freedom","tag-lgbt","tag-ontario","tag-safety","tag-speech","tag-zones"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}