Catching Up on MediaPolicy – Hate speech before and after Bill C-63

March 23, 2024

Earlier this week MediaPolicy published a summary of Leger’s public opinion polling on the federal government’s overhaul of hate speech laws. The Liberals’ new Bill C-63 appears to have captured the public mood, at least for now. (Note: the CBC news story and photo above are from 2014).

The complexity of our existing hate speech laws is considerable. I made up a chart for myself and I am happy to share it with you: buyer beware, I last studied criminal law in 1983. All corrections will be gratefully accepted.

Hate Speech OffensesDownload

That’s it for this week: I have to prepare for a one-year old’s birthday party. Wish me luck.

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Howard Law

I am retired staff of Unifor, the union representing 300,000 Canadians in twenty different sectors of the economy, including 10,000 journalists and media workers. As the former Director of the Media Sector and as an unapologetic cultural nationalist, I have an abiding passion for public policy in Canadian media.

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