Advocating or Promoting Genocide Is an Indictable Offense in Canada
- Consulat honoraire d'Ukraine à Montréal
- 2 hours ago
- 1 min read
Eugene Czolij
Canada must enforce its anti-hate propaganda laws to prohibit public support for Russia’s genocidal war in Ukraine, including barring symbols like “Z.”
Canada has measures to combat hate propaganda.
Section 318 of the Criminal Code provides that:
“(1) Every person who advocates or promotes genocide is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years. (2) In this section, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part any identifiable group, namely, (a) killing members of the group; or (b) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction. […].”
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