Society & Culture
Talk Truth 07.28.26 - Leighton Grey | Lawyer, author and Grey Matter host Leighton Grey examines Bill C-9 and the threat he believes Canada’s new hate-speech provisions pose to religious teaching, public debate and online expression. He explains how vague definitions of hatred can give police, prosecutors and activists greater power over speech, why the legal process itself can become the punishment, and how similar laws have played out in Great Britain. Grey also challenges Christians to speak truth peacefully and courageously, even when biblical convictions risk causing offence. His book Trials, Tribulations, and Truth is available on Amazon.
00:00 Foundational message: If My people
03:40 Bill C-9 becomes law in Canada
04:21 Guest comes in: Leighton Grey
05:02 The criminalization of free speech
06:53 Could religious teaching become a crime?
08:09 When the process becomes the punishment
09:42 Feelings, harm and the manipulation of language
11:27 Who stands to lose under Bill C-9?
14:20 Does Canada still have free speech?
16:12 Speaking truth even when it offends
18:22 Daniel’s respectful defiance
19:25 Canada’s test of faith
21:33 Don’t let fear silence you
24:29 Will falsely accused Canadians have any recourse?
25:03 What happened under similar laws in Britain
25:55 The court challenges likely to come
27:23 Leighton Grey’s show and new book