Roger

I've just read that in Canada you can be fined or jailed for writing or saying "hate speech", whatever that is. Is this true? And if it is, does that mean that Canada has taken a step down the road to fascism or restricted freedom?

gary

Well Roger, if restricting Hate is 'fascism' to you then I think you should recheck your history. Yes, in Canada it is illegal to propagate hatred against an identifiable group. If you feel that's an unacceptable infringement on your freedom then you just stay where you are cause we don't need you here.

rtm

For those of you who don't follow the Europe forum, Roger has already been having his fun stirring up political animosities with his diatribes over there. You may want to treat his "contributions" accordingly.

David

Yes, and on the U.S. board, Roger let us all know that it is wrong for there to be a memorial to the holocaust in Washington as it is not relevent to Americans. This guy is a troll. Ignore him.

Roger

So you blokes want travel without any intellectual stimulation. That's how my mother travels. I still don't know why she travels. Barring beach resorts and the like, travel without some sort of intellectual backdrop of where you're going is kind of an empty gesture. If Canada is sliding towards intellectual authoritarianism, I want to know. Are you blokes afraid to know?

rtm

Full points for trying to keep your troll going, Roger, but I'm not biting.

Bob Brown

There is a difference between freedom of speech and inane babbling, or between freedom of speech and defamatory remarks. <BR>And this one sounds like I would walk away were our black bearded one orating on the local college campus. <BR>Such people do provide entertainment for the students who are idling away between classes. Better than day time TV!! <BR> <BR>

XXX

Roger, <BR> If you don't live in Canada, then mind you own business, oh, and don't bother visiting, bloke.

Roger

Wouldn't want to visit that ice-over shit hole of the north. Canada's economy and society is doing so well that all your hockey teams but Montreal and Toronto are looking south. Oh, but you do have socialized medicine and the long hospital lines that such a system causes. Stew in your own mediocrity, Canada.

Canadian

WOW, the depth of your ignorance is so obvious, little man. You are not worth educating. Take your "hate speech" elsewhere.

traveller

Roger, go back to the Thorn Tree. That's where little children play.