{"id":10105,"date":"2013-03-19T09:56:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T13:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=10105"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:14","slug":"fuseblawg-lgbt-rights-and-the-scc-decision-on-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2013\/fuseblawg-lgbt-rights-and-the-scc-decision-on-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"FusebLAWg: LGBT rights and the SCC decision on hate speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        FusebLAWg: LGBT rights and the SCC decision on hate speech\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h3 id=\"a-step-forward-or-a-step-back\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">A step forward or a step back?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Frances Truong<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 27th, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) upheld the hate speech provision in Saskatchewan\u2019s Human Rights Code (SHRC) while striking out parts of the provision as overly broad. The judges effectively removed a prohibition on publication that \u201cridicules, belittles or otherwise affronts the dignity,\u201d reducing the prohibition on publication solely on grounds of exposing \u201chatred.\u201d They reasoned that the wording of the legislation did not capture the same level of \u201cextreme\u201d feelings towards the targeted group as the word \u201chatred.\u201d In doing so the legislation placed too broad of a limitation on freedom of expression and could not be justified as a constitutional limitation in a free and democratic society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I applaud the Court\u2019s decision in upholding the hate speech provision, I find the decision to strikeout the more expansive prohibition to be problematic, particularly for gays and lesbians in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read full post <a href=\"http:\/\/fuseblawg.wordpress.com\/author\/fuseblawg\/\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FusebLAWg<\/strong> covers a variety of topics and issues which fall broadly under the scope of legal studies. As a collaborative project between the students, faculty and staff of Carleton University\u2019s Department of Law and Legal Studies, FusebLAWg aims to be a leading source of information on contemporary&nbsp;legal affairs and important discussions in Canadian legal scholarship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A step forward or a step back? By: Frances Truong On February 27th, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) upheld the hate speech provision in Saskatchewan\u2019s Human Rights Code (SHRC) while striking out parts of the provision as overly broad. The judges effectively removed a prohibition on publication that \u201cridicules, belittles or otherwise affronts the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graduate-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}