It takes a lot to get me to side with PETA on something, but this has to be one of the most egregious violations of free speech in recent Western memory. In fact, the banned ad campaign looks to be remarkably tame by PETA standards, and I’d even go so far as to say that it’s outright clever. And for this to be banned as “sexist” in Montreal of all places? Just wow.
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Yeah, the ban is rather ridiculous (though, were you to live above the 49th, you wouldn’t find this to be one of the most egregious violations of free speech… such violations are like our national sport in between hockey seasons).
And you’re right; I’m sure the ad would look quite tame on Rue St. Catherine.Report
Yeah one of my top criticisms of my beloved Canukistan is that they are pretty free with tamping down speech and they don’t have any rock solid first ammendment equivalents.Report
@North, what’s sad is that we do have such an equivalent, Section 2 (b) of the Charter reads, “(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;”
It’s just that we, as a nation, don’t seem to care as much.Report
@Jonathan,
Yes indeed, in my defense I meant culturally as well as legally. America has both the word of the law, a court very hell bent on enforcing said word and a populace very ready to go to said courts if they think their speech is being trammeled. Canada has the first of those but neither the second nor the third.Report
See above: Quebec is on a roll lately.Report
The ad is tame, but the problem is that she presented it at the Just For Laughs Festival (a comedy festival) and said several times that she would use the festival as a platform for her PETA ads. The province’s reaction was to fumble and do something stupider.
Now why Just For Laughs decided to invite her to host the yearly comedy gala at all is beyond me.Report