Richard Moon, “Freedom of Expression: Background Paper for the Public Order Emergency Commission”

Richard Moon, “Freedom of Expression: Background Paper for the Public Order Emergency Commission”, September 2022, online: https://publicorderemergencycommission.ca/files/documents/Policy-Papers/Freedom-of-Expression-Moon.pdf.

Summary

This paper examines the Canadian courts’ approach to the justification, scope, and limits of freedom of expression. The paper also discusses a number of the freedom of expression issues raised by the convoy protests, such as the right to access government owned property in order to communicate with others, the regulation of hate speech, the restriction of insults and harassment in public spaces, the right to protest, the right to erect fixed structures as part of a protest, the protection of captive audiences from unwanted speech, and the spread of disinformation and conspiracy theories.

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