Repeal hate speech provision: Moon report (1)
Section 13, the controversial hate speech provision in the Canadian Human Rights Act, should be repealed, according to an independent review by University of Windsor law professor Richard Moon. "The use of censorship by the government should be confined to a narrow category of extreme expression -- that which threatens, advocates or justifies violence against the members of an identifiable group, even if the violence that is supported or threatened is not imminent," Prof. Moon writes in the review, released today, five months after it was commissioned by the Canadian Human Rights Commission. [...more]
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