Left: Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretein with Jewish extremist Chabad Lubavitch leaders

Canada’s Hate Laws that Protect Hate and Criminalize Free Speech!

By Harmony Grant

If you swallow the Anti-Defamation League’s line, you’d think that in Canada, where Christians are less free to express themselves, Jews would also be less free. But this isn’t the case. Jews are more upfront about their ethnic ties in this nation where Christianity is more virulently suppressed and denied free expression of conscience. The ADL’s proudest accomplishment—“anti-hate” federal laws in Canada and most of Europe—has produced the opposite of universal liberty: freedom for a privileged few.

If you swallow the Anti-Defamation League’s line, you’d think that in Canada, where Christians are less free to express themselves, Jews would also be less free. But this isn’t the case. Jews are more upfront about their ethnic ties in this nation where Christianity is more virulently suppressed and denied free expression of conscience. The ADL’s proudest accomplishment—“anti-hate” federal laws in Canada and most of Europe—has produced the opposite of universal liberty: freedom for a privileged few.  In a fascinating article published in Jewish Political Studies Review (11:3-4, 1999), Irwin Otler contrasts Jewish activism in Canada with its counterpart in the United States. He argues that Canadian Jewish organizations differ from their American counterparts in that they more freely assert their ethnic “tribal” identity. For instance, they seek government support of Jewish religious schools. (more…)