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Canada: Finnish Christian Päivi Räsänen speaks to lawmakers about the dangers of hate speech laws

Canada: Finnish Christian Päivi Räsänen speaks to lawmakers about the dangers of hate speech laws
Päivi Räsänen | ADF international
ET staff writer
ET staff writer
27 June, 2026 2 min read

Finnish Parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen has submitted a testimony before the Canadian Senate Human Rights Committee on the C-9 bill concerning hate speech.

Räsänen, who was criminally convicted for a decades-old church booklet about marriage and sexual ethics, was invited to give her testimony.

The grandmother and former Finnish interior minister told of her experience facing a seven-year prosecution and three criminal trials for sharing her Christian beliefs about marriage on social media and in a booklet written for her church.

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