Canada MassResistance Fighting to End Legal Persecution of Bill Whatcott

 

MassResistance Canada activists pushing to stop outrageous (and expensive) government “lawfare” against pro-family activist.

Christian activist Bill Whatcott was acquitted of a so-called “hate crime.” But the government is bringing him to trial again! (Double-jeopardy is legal in Canada.)

The outcry against Ontario Attorney General: Stop this insanity and go after REAL criminals instead!

As in the US, many mushy so-called conservatives are backing off this issue.

August 31, 2024

 Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey (left) plans to spend more government money to bring Bill Whatcott (right) back into Superior Court (background) and again attempt to convict him of "hate speech."

In Canada, the government’s jack-booted oppression against unapproved speech – particularly regarding the LGBT agenda – is much more open and aggressive than in the U.S.

The recent Ontario case of Jordan Peterson is one example. He will lose his license to practice clinical psychology unless he attends “re-education” indoctrination sessions – because he criticized the concept of “gender transition.”

Easily the most egregious case is that of pro-family activist Bill Whatcott. It’s astounding that the government would go to such extreme lengths to persecute one person.

But now Canada MassResistance activists are fighting back!

Bill’s “crime,” arrest, trial, and acquittal

In 2016 – eight years ago – Bill and some unidentified friends registered to march in the Toronto Gay Pride Parade. They marched dressed as masked “green gay zombies.”

 Bill Whatcott (rainbow tutu) and his crack Christian commandos were accepted by the Toronto Homosexual Pride parade in 2016, once they self-identified as the Gay Zombies Cannabis Consumers Association.

The parade was a spectacle of depravity, including contingents of completely naked men, horrible anti-Christian imagery, and allusions to sexual perversions. Outrageously, several prominent politicians (including Prime Minister Trudeau) were also marching in it.

 Marching right in front of Bill and his "gay zombies" in the 2016 Gay Pride parade was this group of naked men. There was another group of naked men behind them.

As Bill and his group walked in the parade, they handed out to the onlooking crowd thousands of “safe sex” flyers that included strong warnings about the negative health effects of homosexual behaviors, along with gospel messages.

 The "Gay Zombies" handing out flyer packets.

 The "safe sex" packet with the flyer inside. They passed out 3,000 of these that day.

The government had no problem with the obscene (and hateful) nature of the parade. But it went after Bill with its full force, for allegedly passing out so-called “hate speech.”

Shortly after the event, a prominent government-supported LGBT group attempted to sue Bill for $104 million. But they gave up after two years when they realized that Bill had no money. So the government jumped in directly. It put out a nation-wide arrest warrant for Bill (which was unnecessary since Bill willingly turned himself in), flew him cross-country, and temporarily jailed him.

In December 2021, after various preliminary hearings, the Ontario Attorney General finally put Bill on trial, which lasted a grueling eight days. But in the end, the judge (shockingly) ruled that Bill was innocent. Rather, he determined the flyers included factual information and sincere Christian messages.

The government is putting him on trial again!

The government had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars (maybe even a million dollars) to attempt to convict Bill of “hate speech.” At the same time, thousands of actual criminals in Canada – accused of drug crimes, robbery, assaults, and worse – have been simply let go without a trial at all.

But the Ontario Attorney General decided to “appeal” Bill’s acquittal and put him on trial again for the alleged “hate speech” flyer passed out eight years ago. (Unlike the U.S., Canada has no protection against trying a person twice for the same crime.)

The Attorney General’s official reason for appealing is that the judge did not allow an LGBT activist professor (claiming to be a “scholar”) to give expert-witness testimony at the trial, and thus the judge was unable to rule properly. The activist professor had been paid by the government to write an “expert” paper to help the court understand the “microaggressions” and “stress” that the flyer caused. (We suspect that the judge looked over the paper and recognized it as basically nonsense, so he didn’t want to waste more time with the activist’s “expert testimony.”)

Interestingly, this Ontario Attorney General is a member of Ontario’s so-called “Progressive Conservative Party,” which has drifted even farther leftward on this issue than the state Republican parties in the U.S.

Thus, on August 12, 2024, Bill was back in court. His preliminary hearing dates and trial dates have been set. On June 23-27, 2025 his lawyers will be arguing for the right to a jury trial, since the prosecutor is arguing for substantial jail time. On October 27-31, 2025 his lawyers will be arguing against the AG’s attempt to introduce Bill’s flyers from earlier events and other material as evidence of “discreditable conduct” during the new trial. Finally, the new trial will begin on March 2, 2026 and will likely last two weeks.

That means this case will have dragged on for 10 years! This new trial will probably cost the government hundreds of thousands of dollars more, in addition to government funding for Bill’s attorneys. Bill’s personal expenses for traveling to Ottawa and lodging could easily be thousands of dollars.

This lawfare is meant not only to severely punish Bill, but as a warning to others not to speak out on LGBT issues.

Canada MassResistance activists are fighting back!

There’s a point where you need to draw a line in the sand. Bill Whatcott has been found innocent in a court of law. This madness needs to end. The Ontario government needs to go back to doing legitimate work, and not pandering to this depraved sexual movement.

Thus, Canada MassResistance activists have been organizing a national push to demand that the Attorney General of Ontario stop this wasteful and expensive use of government resources. In the rest of the world, Bill’s flyer would have simply been ignored, and certainly not be a “crime.” The resistance has already gathered steam.

• Our activists have organized emailing and phone calling from across Ontario, and particularly from the AG’s home district.
• A national Canadian pro-life organization, Campaign Life Coalition, has asked people on its national mailing list to support Bill and pressure the AG.
  
  
• Canada MassResistance activists have also filed records requests with various government agencies seeking to calculate the total government cost of this absurd effort against Bill.
• We’ve also discussed this with a pro-family Canadian politician who will be working with prominent people in the AG’s home district to make personal visits to the office.

Exasperating foot-dragging (and worse) from conservatives

Conservatives in Canada are vocally outraged at the overall terrible infringements on free speech. But it has surprised and saddened us that – similar to in the U.S. – most of them are unwilling to stand up and fight if it involves the LGBT issue. And in particular, they blanch at someone who is unflinching, bold, and outspoken on that issue, as Bill Whatcott has been.

• Virtually all of Canada’s “pro-family” and “constitutional” legal groups are staying away from Bill. It’s ironic that the law firm that’s vigorously defending him is actually a liberal-leaning firm, but one that has strong free-speech principles.
  
  Recently, Canadian Constitution Foundation, a conservative legal lobby, did a video on censorship in Canada. It included Bill Whatcott, but the speaker said, “I really hate to say anything in defense of Whatcott because he is kind of a famous homophobe.”
• We are working with various national pro-family groups in Canada to get involved with this effort. Only a few of them are grudgingly going along.
• Even Canada’s hard-hitting conservative news organization, Rebel News, has avoided covering the Bill Whatcott story – though they have been willing to cover the Rob Hoogland saga in British Columbia.

But we know we will find enough good conservatives in Ontario and across Canada, as well as good conservative politicians, to halt this outrageous proceeding.

Final thoughts

What’s happening in Canada will soon be at America’s doorstep. It’s critical to start fighting back right away! (Historically, waiting too long has proven disastrous.)

But one good thing about Canada is that the government is willing to fund a suitable legal defense for indigent people – including Bill Whatcott, who has an excellent law firm representing him. Compare that to the U.S., where the unfortunate January 6 victims of government lawfare are left on their own to get legal help against the massive U.S. Justice Department legal team (or get help from public defenders, who are usually barely competent).