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From: west@utcsri.UUCP (Thomas L. West)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Question for Canadians
Message-ID: <891@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Mar-85 23:20:53 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 17 23:20:53 1985
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In article <709@ccice5.UUCP> rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone) writes:
>I read in our local paper that a man was convicted of spreading rumors
>for the publication of his book calling the concentration camps of Nazi
>Germany a hoax.  Is it true that you can be arrested and tried for
>spreading rumors in Canada?  If we had that law here, we would have to
>designate several states criminal colonies to hold all the convicts!
>[:-/-)]

  It is true that a man was convicted of knowingly spreading false 
information likely to cause racial hatred.  This false information
was that the concentration camps in Germany were a hoax.  I believe
his sentence was for a few months.  He is currently trying to appeal,
but will in all probability lose.
  It is dangerous to be publicly racist in Canada.  (Thank goodness.)

  Tom West
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