Talk:Hate speech laws in Canada

Off color jokes?
Would they be legal in Canada? Like the " a catholic, a jew, etc. walking into the bar" jokes? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.184.80.26 (talk) 18:55, 29 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Bump. Would off-color jokes be considered hate speech? Have any comedians been arrested in Canada for hate speech?67.54.192.52 (talk) 03:20, 1 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Jokes about English and French-speaking Canadians are not only illegal, but are part of Canada's historical animousity between the two peoples by language such as Quebec separatism and the sense of alienation by French-Canadians throughout the country's history. + 71.102.11.193 (talk) 03:54, 3 May 2010 (UTC)


 * In a more recent case, a Canadian comedian was dragged before a misnamed "Human Rights Commission" because he directed lesbian jokes at two lesbian hecklers. And no, I am not making this up.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.141.155.184 (talk) 03:19, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * This entire exchange has nothing to do with improving the article. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 00:24, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Fundamentally flawed article
This article is fundamentally flawed. It assumes that anti-discrimination laws are the same as hate speech, which is not the case. Only about four provinces have provisions about hate publications in their human rights laws. However, much of the material in this article would be useful as a general statement of human rights laws and procedures, for the article on Human rights in Canada. I will be working on this article to clarify the hate speech issue, and also move material to the general article on human rights in Canada. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 14:56, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * So it took me about five years to get around to fixing it. Example of There is no deadline, I guess.  Article now only contains the human rights provisions from the four jurisdictions which have hate speech/publication restrictions in their human rights laws, with more specific outlines of how they work in each of those four jurisdictions. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 15:28, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

PEI's cited laws are unsourced
Here's a source: https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/sites/default/files/legislation/h-12_0.pdf  moeburn (talk) 03:44, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Hate Speech laws in Canada: Origins
This web site contains an OCR of the complete book A BAS LA HAINE! by journalist Adrien Arcand, writing in 1965 to oppose the demands of the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) for hate speech laws in Canada:

https://downwithhate.wordpress.com/2018/04/03/down-with-hate-by-adrien-arcand-video-presentation/

Arcand's book is also now in English for the first time as DOWN WITH HATE!.

The ebook web site is also being enriched with historically relevant materials, including Appendixes with extracts from Hansard, the Congressional Record, other book reviews, and a recitation on video of highlights from DOWN WITH HATE! in English, all for starters.

Help yourself to the source and fix up your page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.177.106.102 (talk) 01:51, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks; anybody can edit Wikipedia. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 00:25, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Reverted change to citations
I've reverted a series of changes made to the citations by another editor, because they were not constructive: While some of the other changes made sense, I don't have time or energy to go through and fix the majority which are wrong, so I've just reverted the whole thing. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 12:35, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Some of the changes were substantive changes which made no sense. For example, citations to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and to the Constitution Act, 1867, were changed to the federal Access to Information Act.
 * The changes to statute citations used a template which is designed for books and articles. There is a citation template specifically designed for Canadian statutes.  If it is necessary to use a citation template, that template should be used, rather than trying to shoehorn a statute into a template for books:   Template:Cite canlaw
 * Another change was to citation to a Supreme Court decision, again shoehorning it into a template for books. WP:MOS/Legal provides that cases should be cited according to the customary citation style used in each jurisdiction, which the book template does not accomplish.
 * Some of the changes eliminated the title of the document being cited, such as the title of the news release in the Saskatchewan section. That is not helpful.