LS101 – Nov.21 21/11/2007 21:01:00
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← HUMAN RIGHTS, CENSORSHIP AND NATIONAL SECURITY
← IN THE CANADIAN CONTEXT
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← Human Rights
• Political rights – hold elections, right to vote, freedom of the press
• Economic rights – right to hold private property and make a living
o Property rights?
• Equality rights – discrimination prevented
• Legal Rights – due process etc.
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← Hate Propaganda – Section 318
• Ernst Zundel – German immigrant, anti-Semitic, Holocaust denier
o Charged with spreading false news because of a pamphlet he
produced called ‘Did 6 million really die?’
• James Keegstra
o high-school teacher from Alberta who was teaching his Gr.9
class that Jews were treacherous, child-killers, power hungry
etc.
o Supreme Court declared that he violated 2b of the Section but
it was justified – Keegstra could NOT spew hate like this
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← Canada’s Tainted History – Internal Security
← Japanese Canadians and World War II
• Put in internment camps and their property was confiscated
• It was never questioned whether or not they were a threat or had
done anything wrong (some had even been born in Canada but
were targe
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