http://www2.macleans.ca/2008/07/18/american-exceptionalism/ Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine. Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www2.macleans.ca/2008/07/18/american-exceptionalism/comment-page-1/#comment-9921 Wayne Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:59:22 +0000 http://macleans.wordpress.com/?p=3351#comment-9921 You have to give cudos to the yanks on the issue of free speech we should be as lucky up here. The provincial commissions setup are the typical canadian approach of thinking that somehow we could set something up that would take the heat of the local politicians see using a lovely word like Independent and maybe try to make everyone happy. As usual such attempts are rarely successful and more often than not only contribute even more consequences to the original problem. We should get of this of hate speech and leave it to the Charter of Rights and the Criminal Code which more than covers the necessary types of speech that are dangerous such as libel, slander, threats of harm etc. You have to give cudos to the yanks on the issue of free speech we should be as lucky up here. The provincial commissions setup are the typical canadian approach of thinking that somehow we could set something up that would take the heat of the local politicians see using a lovely word like Independent and maybe try to make everyone happy. As usual such attempts are rarely successful and more often than not only contribute even more consequences to the original problem. We should get of this of hate speech and leave it to the Charter of Rights and the Criminal Code which more than covers the necessary types of speech that are dangerous such as libel, slander, threats of harm etc.

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