FIRST READING: Another NDP bill threatens to jail Canadians for speech – National Post
Nov 04, 2025
Two years in jail for any Canadian caught ‘condoning, denying, downplaying or justifying’ Indian residential schools
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.
