POLS 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: James Keegstra, Eckville, Donald Butler

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3140
• Professor: Dave Snow

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Week #5 - keegstra, butler and interest group litigation. 11:19 am: keegstra: the facts, high school teacher in eckville, taught students jews were "sadistic, power hungry child killer" who had created the. If so is 281. 2(2) a reasonable limit under s. 1 of the charter: also concerned 11(d) presumption of innocence. Mclachlin: minimal impairment, dickson: law precise enough to prevent the unjustified prosecution of "merely unpopular or unconventional opinion: If hate speech upheld on equality grounds in keegstra. 2(b) of the charter: law unconstitutionally impinges on that freedom and it too vague to constitute a reasonable limit, wants law struck down. Judge(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of la(cid:373)er c. j delivered (cid:271)y sopi(cid:374)ka (cid:894)majority(cid:895: concurrence. Scope of the s. 2(b): is obscenity covered: whole scc: yes --> short of violence anything that expresses meaning is covered, leaf"s argument is struck down on this point, oaks test, significance of changing purpose.