… Rob Dhanu, a lawyer and former B.C. prosecutor, said there are already laws against mischief and intimidation, and proving “willful promotion of hatred” when someone is displaying a terror symbol may require hate speech that would already be illegal under Canadian law. He also said allowing police to bypass a provincial attorney general might wrongly lower the bar for charges against speech, even if it removes bottlenecks when combating hate crimes.
We have plenty of laws already, these new laws are more about politics than hate and will be equally ignored or selectively applied like all the rest.
