Definitely the Lefties have broken from reality in this case.
This is not the first, nor is it the last case of egregious abuse of fundamental human right from the Krazy Kanadians. Dudley Doright slid off the rails decades ago, with one target, as reprisal for verbally criticizing koranimals generally and mohammed specifically.
Apparently, Canada has no Freedom of Speech Law, nor the universal common law right to protect one's life, liberty and property.
Canada does have some abominations (ostensively now repealed after a dozen years) called Human Rights Tribunals, which were immediately exclusively populated by Kanadian Koranimals, and unemployed college activist "students" whose sole means of support and whose sole goal in life was the application of "human Rights violations" prosecutions, all supported financially by the Canadian "government."
A brief aside....
There is a classic nightmarish novel
by Franz Kafka, The Castle which is replicated almost exactly by the Kanadian Koranimals and their indolent supporters, and main Target, Mark Stein, a writer-Journalist. If you have read The Castle, you need to read here no further.
All details of the "prosecutors," including their names, are on the record."
Resuming the original story, short version : The victim was exonerated completely, but not before being forced to spend hundreds of thousands of $ more than a decade of his life and driven to the brink of bankruptcy.
The actual story is beyond imagining, but all documented in Mark Steyn's book, Lights Out, Islam Free Speech and the Twilight of the West.
Once done with the book, will you, like me, look up and ask yourself, "Did what I just finished reading for real?"
How is this different from any other case involving Leftists?