1. Merging Cultures Speech
The right to free speech is one of the most important democratic freedoms. ... Both these authors have tried to shift the Canadian consensus by normalizing previously unacceptable tones and pushing the limits of free speech. ... It had been more than ten years since the Supreme Court of Canada last wrestled with this issue, and then upheld Canada's hate-speech provisions by ruling that James Keegstra, an Alberta teacher who quizzed his students on their "knowledge " of his anti-Semitic views, was willfully promoting hatred of a Canadian minority. ... "Queen's recognizes the right of...
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