“Street-Level Warning” for Canadians living under this legislation.
Canada’s Digital Guillotine: How Your Words Are About to Be Policed
The first Monday of 2026 has come and gone, and Ottawa is already sending a clear message: your voice online is no longer yours.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberals are moving faster than most Canadians realize, reviving the Online Harms Act, the same bill that died last year, but now armed with even bigger budgets, bigger bureaucracies, and bigger ambitions.
This is not about child safety. That’s the story they tell to make it seem harmless. The truth is far darker. This law gives a government commission the power to decide what is “harmful” and what isn’t. It gives platforms the choice to remove anything that might offend regulators or risk fines. In practice, this means anything you post, share, or even joke about could vanish. Your opinion, your commentary, your criticism, your religion, your art, all under the shadow of a $200 million bureaucracy designed to watch, judge, and silence.
It doesn’t matter if you’re careful, if you follow the rules, if you never break a law. This law is vague on purpose. It’s not meant to catch criminals. It’s meant to catch thinkers, questioners, people who challenge the narrative, people who refuse to stay silent. Ordinary Canadians like you and me could be flagged simply for sharing something a bureaucrat doesn’t like. A political cartoon could disappear. A video questioning government policy could be taken down. Even a private discussion could be scrutinized.
And the platforms will comply, because the fines are massive, and the government isn’t joking. They want control, and the easiest way to get it is to make everyone self-censor.
You post, you hesitate, you delete before anyone sees it, just to be safe. That’s the plan. That’s the real effect. This is how freedom dies quietly, without headlines, without drama, with people convinced they are just “being careful.”
Carney’s government is fast-tracking this. They are not waiting, not debating, not listening to the alarm bells that have been ringing since the first iteration of this bill in 2024. Consultations have been quiet, conversations behind closed doors, decisions made in rooms Canadians cannot enter.
The machinery is being built now, the rules written in shadow, the system designed to sweep every word, every post, every thought under the watchful eye of the state.
And make no mistake, this is just the beginning. The law is part of a larger plan. Expanded surveillance powers, AI monitoring, digital oversight, platforms acting as extensions of government judgment, it is all connected. Canada is on the edge of a digital panopticon, where the things you say, think, and share are never private, never safe, and never yours alone.
The first Monday of 2026 is more than a date. It’s a warning. The government is ready to take action, and if Canadians do not act, we will wake up one day in a country where free expression is conditional, where speaking out is risky, where silence is survival. This is the Canada Carney is building. Watch your words. Question everything my friends. Share this everywhere. If you do not, you may find your voice erased, and the freedoms you took for granted gone forever. This is not joke.
Step-by-Step Descent Since 2024
Feb 26, 2024: Bill C‑63 introduced. Digital Safety Commission and platform duties proposed. Public warned of chilling effects.
2024: Parliamentary debate; critics cry foul over vague definitions and administrative censorship.
Dec 4, 2024: Bill split into “child safety” and “broader harms” components, a tactical move to push through censorship.
Jan 6, 2025: Parliament prorogued, Bill dies. Liberals quietly vow to return.
2025: Behind-the-scenes consultations hint at regulating AI, deepfakes, political speech, and religious commentary.
Early 2026: Signals show Carney’s Liberals pushing full throttle to reintroduce the bill, with $200M+ bureaucracy poised to monitor, flag, and erase online content.
The Chilling Effect
Imagine a Canada where:
Your opinion can be removed instantly, judged by unelected bureaucrats.
Political criticism is censored before it reaches an audience.
Religious beliefs are monitored, flagged, and potentially suppressed.
Platforms remove lawful content preemptively to avoid fines, meaning your voice disappears because corporations are too afraid to defend it.
This isn’t dystopian fiction. The UK’s Online Safety regime shows how quickly regulation can criminalize digital expression, and Canada is now following the same path, only faster, under Carney.