Justice committee  I'm not so sure that adding the word “extreme” would be particularly useful. What I think would be a better suggestion, frankly, is to look at how the courts have defined that and include those hallmarks of hatred in the legislation. They attempt to further clarify what hatred is

Justice committee  Well, it doesn't matter where the sites are. They can be anywhere. When the sites were counted a few years ago, that was the number that came up. My guess would be that they were originating in Canada as well as elsewhere.

Justice committee  I disagree. First of all, to these last two questioners, I think it's important to understand the purpose of law, which is a bigger question. Laws dictate to the country as well as the rest of the world what any particular country's values are. Oftentimes the law doesn't oblite

Justice committee  It doesn't require physical harm. Thank you.

Justice committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Cotler. I was thinking as I was listening that perhaps it would be important to give a couple of examples of how this works, as opposed to discussing it in the abstract. Chief Justice Dickson remarked when he was deciding these two leading cases way back

Justice committee  Yes, I understand that.

Justice committee  All right. I'll skip to what I think is the most important part of this debate, which is often misunderstood, and that is that hate speech is a practice of discrimination. It's more than just speech. This is where the argument lies in the popular media, in Maclean's magazine, e

Justice committee  Thank you very much. I'm very honoured to have been asked to participate in your deliberations. I am also appearing as an individual, but I do have some background in this area. I have provided you with a very detailed paper that I have written on this topic, and I hope you wil

Justice committee  Yes, I can.