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For the third time in two years, a member of the NDP has introduced a private members’ bill that would jail Canadians for speech.

Last week, the House of Commons completed its first reading of Bill C-254 , a private members’ bill introduced by the NDP’s Leah Gazan that would criminalize “residential school denialism.”

As the bill’s text states, any Canadian found to be “condoning, denying, downplaying or justifying the Indian residential school system” could be punished with up to two years in jail.

A judge would also be able to order the forfeiture of “anything by means of or in relation to” the speech offence.

“Since the discovery of unmarked graves (we have seen) an increase in denialism about what occurred in the residential schools. This is horrific,” said Gazan in a

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