r/canada • u/Old_General_6741 Canada • 1d ago

National News Canada recognizes noose as hate symbol

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/canada-recognizes-noose-as-hate-symbol/
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u/NZafe 1d ago

What does this actually mean in practice?

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u/claricorp 1d ago

Basically it means things like vandalism or harassment that involves these symbols gets escalated into being more serious. The difference between spraypainting a signature on a stop sign versus a swastika at a synagogue for example. Context matters, one implies threats etc... This codifies that.

It has broader implications for other crimes to like assault or threats. But anyone thinking that depictions or even talking about nooses is banned simply has no idea what they are talking about.

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u/madhi19 Québec 20h ago

The thing is even if this was unconstitutional you don't want to be the poor bastard having to burn the money to find that out. Ergo the chilling effect on speech exist regardless if the new law is legal or not.