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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics
Subject: Re: Zundel etc.
Message-ID: <593@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 09:43:07 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.593
Posted: Thu Apr 11 09:43:07 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Apr-85 10:05:24 EST
References: <407@mnetor.UUCP> <5459@utzoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: "wilfully" is the word

In article <5459@utzoo.UUCP> laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:
||if you prosecute Zundel, not becuae of ``inciting hatred'' but because
||of ``publishing something that is untrue'' then you have effectively
||killed the book industry.

The key words in s. 177 are "wilfully", "that he knows is false",
and "injury or mischief to a public interest". These three requirements
make it awfully hard to prosecute under that section.
"Wilfully" requires an intention to do exactly what is prohibited by
the section. The others are self-explanatory.

Dave Sherman
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