surrounding any topic they choose to deem as "hate".

The bill was specifically motivated by the multiple places in the bible where it clearly states that homosexual activity is a sin and an offense to God.
If passed, someone preaching for example about these excerpts or expressing other such beliefs, for example, Catholic doctrine on the topic could be subject to criminal prosecution.
The minority conservatives attempted as best that they could to put wording in that would hopefully give the accused something to fight with as they go through their court battles, but they could not get the libs to drop the religious teaching exemption.
What defines "hate speech" is left to those in power to define. The term "intimidation" is also an arbitrary term that has broad application which can be conveniently used to suppress opposing views and silence dissent to their beliefs.

Canadian liberals also couched their anti religious freedom pill within other mentions of protecting against antisemitism - a well established good cause to help with the optics, (but at the same time equating speaking out against homosexuality with criminal antisemitism).

The baby steps against religious freedom are turning into long strides in Canada, Europe, and Australia. They are present here in the US as well, eagerly awaiting their chance.

The spinners and propagandists will point to other portions of this bill made to make it look more palatable in order to deflect from the landmark communist step against freedom of religion.


Link: https://www.parl.ca/Content/Bills/451/Government/C-9/C-9_3/C-9_3.PDF