The Importance of Absolutism in Free Speech

Alex speaks with Camden Hutchison about the nuances of freedom of expression laws in Canada and the United States, and the ways in which immature understandings of free speech can obfuscate the public discourse surrounding this fundamental right in North American law and politics. 

Episode Notes

Freedom of Expression: Values and Harms - Camden Hutchison

https://albertalawreview.com/index.php/ALR/article/view/2733 

Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Including Freedom of Expression)

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/how-rights-protected/guide-canadian-charter-rights-freedoms.html 

Guide to The Constitution (Including the First Amendment) 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-government/the-constitution/#:~:text=The%20First%20Amendment%20provides%20that,the%20right%20to%20bear%20arms 

Overview of Bill C-19 (Including Division 21 criminalizing various forms of Holocaust denial)

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/trans/bm-mb/other-autre/c19/remarks-remarques.html