{"id":45304,"date":"2021-04-21T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45304"},"modified":"2021-04-20T09:11:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:11:30","slug":"qotd-freedom-of-speech-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/04\/21\/qotd-freedom-of-speech-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Freedom of speech in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>We have nothing like the First Amendment; our Supreme Court is a Leftist institution <em>par excellence<\/em> and has even decreed <em>in effect<\/em> that truth is no defense in cases where &#8220;protected groups&#8221; are insulted or offended. Paragraph 140 of a 2013 Judgment finds &#8220;that not all truthful statements must be free from restriction. Truthful statements can be interlaced with harmful ones or otherwise presented in a manner that would meet the definition of hate speech.&#8221; Section 15 (2) of the Constitution Act of 1982 abridges the rights that section 15(1) guarantees Canadian citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Further, our Human Rights Tribunals are Soviet-style shadow courts that discard due process in adjudicating cases of supposed discrimination or &#8220;hate speech.&#8221; As Canadian Human Rights Commissioner Dean Steacy said: &#8220;Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don&#8217;t give it any value.&#8221; Openness to everything except freedom of speech, chartered principle and practical reason is the hallmark of our justice system, as it is of the nation. As Carl Sagan quipped in <em>The Demon-Haunted World<\/em>: &#8220;It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>David Solway, <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/the-canadian-mind-a-culture-so-open-its-brains-fall-out\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Canadian Mind: A Culture So Open, Its &#8216;Brains Fall Out'&#8221;, <em>PJ Media<\/em><\/a>, 2018-10-10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have nothing like the First Amendment; our Supreme Court is a Leftist institution par excellence and has even decreed in effect that truth is no defense in cases where &#8220;protected groups&#8221; are insulted or offended. Paragraph 140 of a 2013 Judgment finds &#8220;that not all truthful statements must be free from restriction. 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