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> not in free speech etc. What's your source on this? Free speech is enshrined as a "fundamental freedom" in the Charter. There are reasonable limits as well, to ensure that things like hate speech are deemed illegal.
I've met a number of people (all American, so I infer it's due to some American news sources) that believe Canadians are arrested on a regular basis for flimsy and arbitrary claims of hate speech, and those arrests are political. The same people tend to believe we wait six months and probably die before getting cancer treatment because of our socialized medical system. So chalk it up to Canada being used in the parti…
So absolutely, freedom of speech is very limited over here. And to stay on topic, I absolutely get the new weed policy, more people stoned, less trouble will government have controlling population. Although it does seem redundant at this point as ignorance seems to be the real unifying Canadian value.