[Entropy Squared]

Canada is becoming fragmented and polarized just as the Liberals desired when they imposed the Canadian Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on the citizens of Canada. With liberals, the politics of division are everything and the Liberals in Canada are giving the world a seminar in how it is done. The constitution is designed to cause division among geographical regions, and the Charter is designed to cause division by focusing on group rights instead of individual rights and by making some groups more special than others. Both are a guarantee of division and strife at several levels, which is the environment in which Liberal thrive.

[Unam Sanctam]

How about the Canadian Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms -- is there any freedom of speech protection analogous to the US' First Amendment that could be used to trump statutory "hate speech" laws? Of course the protections here in the US only exist because judiciary interpretation has broadly interpreted the right to free speech, esp. with Oliver Wendell Holmes' "clear and present danger" standard as to when incendiary speech may be outlawed. Given the track record of the Canadian judiciary in cracking down on Christians' rights, I'm sure they would find a way to uphold the statute.

[Unam Sanctam]

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has the following two provisions:

1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a) freedom of conscience and religion; (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and (d) freedom of association.

I guess a court could find that the "hate speech" laws would be "reasonable limits" under clause 1 that would obviate the rights under clause 2.