Thread: go to prison for insulting someone?

Originally Posted by droche

One doesn't have to go to Europe to find this phenomenon. Just a few hundred miles north of you mhailey, in Canada, one can be charged with a hate crime for saying pejorative terms describing certain "protected groups."

Actually, all groups are protected, not just a selection.

Quoted from the Canadian Charter of rights and Freedoms:

"Equality Rights
15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.
(2) Subsection (1) does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability. "

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