Canada just removed the one law that kept pastors from being prosecuted for quoting Scripture – and signed it into law last month.
Now the same government is pushing surveillance legislation that Jim Jordan says puts American phone records at risk.
What a Canadian Liberal minister said about the book of Romans in open committee is a preview of the future the Left wants to bring to America.
Canada Bill C-9 Removes the Bible Hate Speech Defense and Strips Religious Freedom
Canada's Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, received royal assent on June 18 – the final ceremonial step before a Canadian bill becomes law, equivalent to a presidential signature in the United States.
The bill's most alarming provision quietly repealed the section of Canada's Criminal Code that shielded people from prosecution for quoting religious texts in good faith.
That protection is gone.
During a Canadian parliamentary justice committee hearing last October, Liberal Party MP Marc Miller argued that passages from Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Romans contained "clear hatred" toward homosexuals – and questioned why any "good faith" exemption should protect people who invoke them.
"In Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Romans, there are passages with clear hatred towards, for example, homosexuals," Miller told the committee. "I don't understand how the concept of good faith could be invoked if someone were literally invoking a passage from, in this case, the Bible."
"Bill C-9 makes it easier for people of faith and others to be criminally charged because of views that other people take offense to," Canadian Conservative MP Andrew Lawton told Fox News Digital.
Jim Jordan cited the new law in his interview this week with EMCN Media, an independent Canadian outlet.
"Quoting scripture is now somehow a crime," Jordan said. "This is always where it leads."
Jim Jordan Says Bill C-22 Threatens American Privacy Rights and the Fourth Amendment
The second bill Canada is pushing – Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act – is what brought Jordan and House Foreign Affairs Chairman Brian Mast (R-FL) into the fight in May.
Their letter to Canadian Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree warned that Bill C-22 would "drastically expand Canada's surveillance and data access powers in ways that create significant cross-border risks to the security and data privacy of Americans."
The bill would require telecommunications companies and tech platforms – including American firms operating in Canada – to store every user's communications data for twelve months and turn it over to Canadian law enforcement on demand.
That means Apple, Google, and every major platform operating in Canada could be compelled to produce records on their users – including Americans who travel to Canada or communicate with Canadians.
Both Apple and Meta have publicly opposed the bill.
Jordan pressed the question directly in his interview: "Are Americans in jeopardy of their privacy, their communications, their Fourth Amendment liberties that we have under our Constitution?"
Chinese state hackers known as Salt Typhoon proved that point in 2024 – exploiting a law enforcement access system built into American telecom networks and spending months inside some of the country's largest phone carriers before anyone noticed.
Canada's bill creates an opening wider than the one Salt Typhoon walked through.
Graham Linehan Was Arrested for Free Speech Posts and the UK Police Paid Him 25000
Last September, five armed Metropolitan Police officers met Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan at Heathrow Airport as he stepped off a flight from Arizona.
His offense: three posts on X criticizing transgender ideology.
Officers arrested him on the jetway, confiscated his devices, and locked him in a cell.
The case was eventually dropped. Last month, the Metropolitan Police paid Linehan £25,000 in a settlement and issued an apology acknowledging the "considerable distress" they had caused him.
The arrest happened in Britain under British law – but the model is identical to what Canada is building, a government that decides which speech is criminal combined with a surveillance system powerful enough to find and punish it.
The Canadian minister who called the book of Romans hateful will soon have expanded access to records showing who is communicating with whom, and how often.
"We're seeing this infringement on American liberties and, frankly, American companies being required to do things," Jordan told EMCN Media.
Congress is not convinced – and Jordan is making sure Americans understand why.
Sources:
- Mariane Angela, "Jim Jordan Warns Canada's Censorship Push Could Come for Americans Next," Breitbart, July 17, 2026.
- Kristine Parks, "Canada's hate bill could be 'weaponized' against people of faith, Conservative lawmaker warns," Fox News, April 7, 2026.
- Staff, "House GOP warns Canada its new cybersecurity bill could pose privacy risks to Americans," Just the News, May 8, 2026.
- Margaret Flavin, "U.K. Police Offer 'Unreserved Apology' and £25,000 to Irish Comedian Graham Linehan After Armed Arrest at Heathrow," Gateway Pundit, July 9, 2026.
