Open AccessThe Hate Propaganda Amendments: Reflections on a Controversy
Author(s) -
Maxwell Cohen
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
alberta law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-8356
pISSN - 0002-4821
DOI - 10.29173/alr2183
Subject(s) - parliament , law , criminal code , political science , code (set theory) , hate crime , criminal law , computer science , politics , programming language , set (abstract data type)
The recent hate propaganda amendments to the Criminal Code were subjected to stormy journey through Parliament, from introduction in 1966, to final passage in June of this year. Professor Cohen, having chaired the Special Committee on Hate Propa ganda, gives an informative account of the history of the problem, the debate surrounding it, and how the inescapable conclusion was reached that the law was sorrowfully lacking in its treatment of the most important aspects of the hate propaganda problem.