In Ottawa, the federal Liberal government’s group of 12 experts who
considered ways and means of limiting harms on the internet finished their
meetings and released their findings this summer.
The Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety concluded their 10 meetings on
June 10, 2022, and released their findings on July 8, 2022.
The federal Liberal government is expected to use the group’s findings when
it drafts a new bill to limit online harms.
In 2021, the government identified five types of “harmful content” on the
internet: hate speech, terrorist content, incitement to violence, child
sexual exploitation and non-consensual intimate images. This year, the
advisory group also considered disinformation.
The new Liberal bill will supersede Bill C-36, which Justice Minister David
Lametti introduced in the House of Commons on June 23, 2021, to better
define and combat hate propaganda and hate speech. Bill C-36 died shortly
afterward.
Canadian Heritage provides summaries of the group’s thinking over 10
meetings:
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/harmful-online-content.html