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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Zundel
Message-ID: <599@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Apr-85 01:49:43 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.599
Posted: Sun Apr 14 01:49:43 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Apr-85 13:06:42 EST
References: <890@ubc-vision.CDN> <6@aquila.UUCP> <997@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1008@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: why 177 was used on Zundel

In article <1008@ubc-cs.UUCP> robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson) writes:
||I disagree. Section 281.2 of the criminal code ( wilfully 
||promoting hatred against an identifiable group ) is the law that
||is supposed to deal with hate literature. Section 177 was used 
||because it was thought to be easier to get a conviction with it.

Wrong. S. 177 was used because s. 281.2 requires the consent of
the provincial Attorney-General before the charge can be laid,
and Mr. McMurtry refused to provide such consent.

Dave Sherman
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