Canada doesn't have a First Amendment...
We do have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Section 2(b) states:
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
This is however limited by Section 1.
1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
This can go two ways: one it implies that Free Speech can be limited if that limitation is reasonable... however this works the other way as well (i.e. you can't limit if the limitation is unreasonable)
In other words Canadian law leaves room for interpretation of law.
Besides we have to keep lawyers busy somehow...
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