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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
WTF are you talking about? Nothing is "punishable under the Charter", the Charter doesn't punish anything. Membership in any group isn't punishable under any Canadian law. You actually have to perform a criminal act to be charged criminally - if you want to belong to the KKK, and generally be a bigot, you're perfectly entitled to do so, so long as you don't promote violence against an identifiable group while you do so.
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Right, I was unclear.
I'm referring specifically the Keegstra case and the supreme court's ruling that hate speech isn't protected as free speech. So, being a member of a racist organization and displaying racist iconography or propaganda is not the same thing as covering your face with a piece of cloth or wearing a soup bowl on your head.