{"id":773582,"date":"2026-07-01T15:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773582\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:49:18","slug":"after-montreal-shooting-bill-c-9-needs-more-than-symbolism-the-hill-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773582\/","title":{"rendered":"After Montreal shooting, Bill C-9 needs more than symbolism &#8211; The Hill Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, received royal assent on June 18 and will come into force on July 18, moving the country from legislative debate to implementation. Canada must decide whether C-9 will become a tool for action, or another example of our systemic failure to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To keep reading, subscribe and become a political insider.<a id=\"subLinkStoryPage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/get-a-subscription\" style=\"float: left; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif !important;\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE NOW<\/a> Only $7.76 a week for an annual subscription. <\/p>\n<p class=\"playfair\" style=\"font-size: 11pt !important; font-weight: 600!important;  margin-top: 20px; float: left; width: 100%;  padding:; margin: 0; color: #252525;\"> Enjoy unlimited website access and the digital newspaper. <\/p>\n<p class=\"playfair\" style=\"font-size: 11pt !important; color: #000; margin: 0; float: left; font-weight: 900 !important; width: 100%;  padding: 10px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0;\"> Cancel anytime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, received royal assent on June 18 and will come into force on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-773582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}