Canada's Trudeau defends free speech, but "it is not without limits"

Canada's Trudeau defends free speech, but “it is not without limits”

Monday, November 2nd 2020 - 08:26 UTC

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended free speech but added that it was “not without limits” and should not “arbitrarily and needlessly hurt” certain communities. Read full article

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DemonTree
Hate speech legislation is too easily abused. Just look at the 1984-inspired law they are trying to pass in Scotland:

https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-cabaret-voltaire/

“we’d suggest that any issue that manages to unite the Orange Order AND the Catholic Church AND the National Secular Society AND Humanist Society Scotland AND feminists AND loyal SNP columnists AND legal academics AND lawyers AND the police in opposition to it might just be a little bit dodgy, to put it delicately.”
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