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An Act respecting the Criminal Law: Bill C-19

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The Criminal Code (Cr.C )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Code_(Canada)

318 – Hate Propaganda


Re: Bill C-19: the Budget Implementation Act

(June 15, 2022) Paula Simons: We cannot fight hate by criminalizing speech, no matter how vile
https://nationalpost.com/news/paula-simons-we-cannot-fight-hate-by-criminalizing-speech-no-matter-how-vile

  • Read speech above ⬆; Watch speech below ⬇

Ernst Zündel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zündel

  • jailed several times: in Canada for publishing literature “likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group”, and on charges of being a threat to national security
  • On 5 February 2003, Ernst Zündel was detained by local police in the U.S. and deported to Canada, where he was detained for two years on a security certificate for being a foreign national considered a threat to national security pending a court decision on the validity of the certificate.
  • moved to Montreal in 1961, where Zündel would eventually come under the tutelage of Canadian fascist politician Adrien Arcand
  • Zündel gained prominence during the 1970s as spokesman for Concerned Parents of German Descent, a group that claimed German-Canadians and their children were the target of discrimination due to anti-German stereotyping in the media. 
  • On 8 May 1995, his Toronto residence was the target of an arson attack, resulting in $400,000 in damage. A group calling itself the “Jewish Armed Resistance Movement” claimed responsibility for the arson attack; according to the Toronto Sun, the group had ties to extremist organizations, including the Jewish Defense League and Kahane Chai.
  • After a much publicized trial in 1985, Zündel was found guilty.
    • His conviction was later overturned in an appeal on a legal technicality, leading to a second trial in 1988, in which he was again convicted. Zündel was originally found guilty by two juries but was finally acquitted upon appeal by the Supreme Court of Canada which held in 1992 that section 181 (formerly known as section 177) was a violation of the guarantee of freedom of expression under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Malcolm Ross (school teacher) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Ross_(school_teacher)

James Keegstra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Keegstra