I am not one who thinks that a democratic society has any business determining what its citizens shall believe and thereby using legal sanctions to enforce it. Having said that, I'd be very much in favour of using numbers of other sanctions, if people make racially obscene remarks. As an example, when the material was revealed concerning Keegstra and what he had done in his class, he was removed from the class, he was ousted from the teaching profession, and the voters of the community of which he was mayor voted him out of office. I think that was entirely appropriate. Those were sanctions, but they weren't the legal sanctions. They weren't illegal, of course, but they weren't the sanctions of the law. They were the sanctions of public opinion, expressed in I think very constructive ways, and at that point I saw no point in prosecuting him. He should have been allowed to wallow in the obscurity he so richly deserved.
