{"id":772,"date":"2009-09-02T10:54:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T14:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=772"},"modified":"2009-09-02T10:54:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T14:54:47","slug":"qotd-section-13-violates-the-charter-of-rights-and-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/02\/qotd-section-13-violates-the-charter-of-rights-and-freedoms\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Section 13 violates the <em>Charter of Rights and Freedoms<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I have determined that Mr. Lemire contravened s. 13 of the Act in only one of the instances alleged by Mr. Warman, namely the <em>AIDS Secrets<\/em> article. However, I have also concluded that s. 13(1) in conjunction with ss. 54(1) and (1.1) are inconsistent with s. 2(b) of the <em>Charter<\/em>, which guarantees the freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression. The restriction imposed by these provisions is not a reasonable limit within the meaning of s. 1 of the <em>Charter<\/em>. Since a formal declaration of invalidity is not a remedy available to the Tribunal (see <em>Cuddy Chicks Ltd. V. Ontario (Labour Relations Board)<\/em>, [1991] 2 S.C.R. 5), I will simply refuse to apply these provisions for the purposes of the complaint against Mr. Lemire and I will not issue any remedial order against him (see <em>Nova Scotia (Workers&#8217; Compensation Board) v. Martin<\/em>, 2003 SCC 54 at paras. 26-7).<\/p>\n<p>Athanasios D. Hadjis, <a href=\"http:\/\/chrt-tcdp.gc.ca\/aspinc\/search\/vhtml-eng.asp?doid=981&#038;lg=_e&#038;isruling=0#1011252\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Human Rights Tribunal decision in <em>Warman vs. Lemire<\/em>, 2009-09-02<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have determined that Mr. Lemire contravened s. 13 of the Act in only one of the instances alleged by Mr. Warman, namely the AIDS Secrets article. However, I have also concluded that s. 13(1) in conjunction with ss. 54(1) and (1.1) are inconsistent with s. 2(b) of the Charter, which guarantees the freedom of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,10,41],"tags":[186,46,217],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","category-liberty","category-quotations","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-hrcs","tag-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}