Women's Legal Education and Action Fund

The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) works to ensure Canadian courts do, in fact, provide the equality rights guaranteed to women and girls by Section 15 of the Canadian Charter. Our strength comes from a small staff team in Toronto, member branches in several provinces, scores of active volunteers who serve on committees, a national board and our affiliate, West Coast LEAF, in British Columbia.

Supreme Court decision recognizes harm in hate speech

Feb 272013
 
 Canadian politics

Sexual orientation added to list of prohibited "incitement to detestation" identities.

from the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF)

The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) applauds the affirmation by the Supreme Court of Canada in its judgment in Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission v. Whatcott, released today, that hate speech causes deep harm to vulnerable groups and to society at large, and that hate speech prohibitions in human rights legislation are justified.

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