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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.”

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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

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