Canada has a hate literature law already on the books, and since the free speech rights in the Charter of Rights are noted as subject to the unspecified limitations that are typical of democratic societies - which include European countries that don't protect free speech as strictly as the United States does with the First Amendment - it is not an unreasonable fantasy to think that a symbolic anti-Islamophobia motion could affect how the courts interpret the hate literature law.

So it isn't a right-wing hoax or fantasy to claim that this motion has the potential to affect the freedom of speech enjoyed by Canadians to some extent.