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From: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Zundel
Message-ID: <1015@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 16:37:57 EST
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.1015
Posted: Mon Apr 15 16:37:57 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Apr-85 11:14:05 EST
References: <890@ubc-vision.CDN> <578@lsuc.UUCP> <1004@ubc-cs.UUCP> <2706@garfield.UUCP> <1008@ubc-cs.UUCP> <599@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Summary: 

In article <599@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
>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.

Only semi-wrong. Roy McMurty refused to provide consent because he did
not think that the Crown could get a conviction using s. 281.2.

J.B. Robinson