The Liberal Internet censorship bill needs “a stake through the heart,” says one Canadian senator..Blacklock’s Reporter said the controversial bill has been passed to a Senate committee, meaning it won’t be dealt with before their summer recess. If the Liberals, as expected call a fall election, the bill will die..“I don’t think this bill needs amendments,” said Sen. David Richards (N.B.)..“I think however it needs a stake through the heart.”.Richards, a novelist and screenwriter, Tuesday ridiculed a draft cabinet directive that C-10 would promote “the government’s vision” in YouTube videos..“I will always and forever stand against any bill that subjects freedom of expression to the doldrums of government oversight,” said Richards..The bill would see federal regulation of YouTube to ensure uploaded content “serves the needs and interests of all Canadians” and “reflects their circumstances and aspirations,” according to text of the bill..Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault in a Preliminary Draft Policy Directive To The CRTC said regulation “will ensure the new tools introduced by Bill C-10 are used in a way that is consistent with the government’s vision.”.Added Richards: “No law or bill or jurisdiction will inform you..“No social justice theory or psychological report can come close to great literature,” he said..“I was to give a reading for the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia next month until I saw the pledge I must sign about using language that might offend or words that might trigger unwanted emotion in an audience member. If I was to use words that might trigger unwanted emotion my reading would be halted and I would be prevented from completing my reading..“I did not sign this pledge and I will not read. This sanctimony is the hidden foundation of this bill, I think, and the hidden foundation of many bills that have come to this chamber.”.“There is a book in the centre of one of my bookshelves that is surrounded by other books. Some of the other books it is surrounded by have had an interesting history. They were banned in many countries for long, long periods of time: Dostoevsky’s Demons, Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, James Joyce’s Ulysses, Solzhenitsyn’s In The First Circle.”.“In the centre of them is this book which sits unobtrusively and inconspicuously for months at a time without anyone noticing it, Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, himself the banal and evil master of book burning.”.Senators gave Second Reading to the bill and referred it to the communications committee for hearings. Opponents of the bill have served notice they will introduce numerous amendments..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
