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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This is wrong. There are two hate speech provisions in the criminal code. One involves genocide, the other doesn't.
318. (1) Every one who advocates or promotes genocide is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
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319. (1) Every one who, by communicating statements in any public place, incites hatred against any identifiable group where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace is guilty of - (a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or
- (b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.
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Okay...so it excludes genocide and "breaches of the peace". You do realize a breach of the peace is an action that constitutes actual or threatened harm towards someone:
http://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nssc/doc...&resultIndex=5
The threshold for this is actually quite high, and would not include something like economic harm to Israel. So if I'm standing in the street yelling to physically harm Peruvians, that would be okay? Obviously, that's hate speech, and I don't see how it's any different than promoting harm towards black people.
Once again, the issue is that while most elements of the BDS movement are lawful, there is most certainly elements who just use it as a platform to promote hatred.