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nex3
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the first amendment to the Canadian constitution establishes the Government of the Province of Manitoba


stillinbeta
@stillinbeta

The actual Canadian equivalent is probably Section One and Two of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Unlike its American equivalent, it has explicit carve-outs for hate speech.


kda
@kda

and, like the whole of the Charter, is subject to the limiting principle in section 1:

subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society

and, like the rest of section 2 and sections 7 to 15, can be circumvented by a legislature by citing section 33, the "notwithstanding clause".

Also of note: the Charter came into effect not even 41 years ago. April 17th, 1982.


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For the record, the First Amendment in the US Constitution states the government cannot make laws regulating speech, press, religion. It isn't a free pass to be a horrid dick to everyone despite what the people most likely to use it as a defense say.

it's like the "it's IC" or "it's what my character would do" thing in tabletop games in that yeah the ability to not break character and devolve the game into memes is important and all but 99% of the time you hear the line it's as a defence of why they have a fundamental right to be a complete bellend to everyone around them

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