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Sympthsical

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3. I think fining someone $750k for speech is the bigger headline there

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Thu Feb 26, 2026, 09:12 AM

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Jesus Christ.

Canada has many fine qualities to admire. That is definitely not one of them. No matter what any of us think about the man's opinion, that is no bueno. Woof.

And calling yourself a Tribunal is really not helping the Orwellian cartoon authoritarian image of it all.

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