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I’m looking for opinions on a pretty serious subject: Free Speech.
So here is the deal, I’m sure many people don’t know, but a group called Wesboro Babtist Church tried to enter Canada on Thursday, after expressing publically their intention to protest two plays (both pro-homosexual in nature, one a comedy and one drama) and to demonstrate at the funeral of a man brutally murdered in Winnipeg carrying signs like ‘God hates Canada/Fags’ and the such.
The church believes that things like this murder, are God’s way of punishing Canada for legalizing gay marriage...
Anyways, Canada didn’t let them in. Stopped them at the boarder and denied them entry.
Legally, Canada had every right to deny them, but a lot of people are crying foul, saying we should respect free-speech enough to allow them in to protest. Others are saying it’s perfectly right, since what they were intending to do was hate speech and they aren’t even our citizens anyways.
So that’s the question: Does the ideal of freedom of speech mean Canada ought to allow foreign visitors' entrance after they have expressed their intention to disrupt and possibly engage in hate speech at a funeral and two theatre festivals? (link)
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Well, you have a whole bunch of issues here that beg to be more defined and more elaborated on.
I do NOT know of any situation where Canada simply denies entry for political reasons! SO... what is the OFFICIAL view of the Canadian government on this? What did the border crossing officers indicate as the reason for denying entry?
Did everyone in the church group have the proper national documents, such as a passport and/or visa? I do not know but I DO think that Canadian border crossing guards DO ask for the purpose of the visit, so disrupting protests may be a factor, but legally, I do not know without information of the official reason for turning the church group away.
And besides, for all of its faults and all of its favors, Canada is NOT a Democracy, so I do not understand where this "free speech" thing comes from. Canada is a Parliamentary system which is a system that puts power into the hands of the elite, and for crying out loud, they STILL think that Elizabeth Windsor is a Queen, when England has not had a monarchy since 1824 -- and Canadians STILL say they are subjects to Windsor Palace when Canada is an independent nation!!!!!
So go figure.
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You really should google, or do a bit of researching when answering a question like this. Some your ideas of Canada are a bit misunderstood to say the least. Free Speech in provided for by the Bill of Rights in Canada. But to address your first point, both Canada and the US deny people on basis of political activity or associations all the time.
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