Internet hate hearing begins Monday in Toronto
12 June 2006 A hearing before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal begins Monday in Toronto into allegations that respondent Craig Harrison posted hate propaganda to a Toronto website forum calling for the murder of the Trudeau family, Blacks and other non-whites, Francophones and Aboriginals in addition to promoting hatred of the Jewish, Italian and East Asian communities.
Harrison, 40, of Georgetown, ON was previously convicted in 1996 of a racist assault causing bodily harm after attacking a Black man while shouting racial slurs. He pled guilty to the crime and was sentenced to jail for two years less a day. Showing no remorse, court records show he later scrawled Nazi swastikas beside his signatures on his three-year probation order.
The hearing comes as a result of a complaint filed with the Canadian Human Rights Commission in November 2003 by Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman. The Commission investigated the complaint and then referred it to the Tribunal for a full hearing. The case will be argued by Warman and Commission lawyer Giacomo Vigna.
If found responsible for the postings, Harrison could face a fine of up to $10,000 and permanent court order barring him from posting hate propaganda to the Internet.
Leo Adler, Director of National Affairs for the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center For Holocaust Studies described the hearing as "proof that human rights laws work" and form "an important barrier to the spread of hate and terror on the Internet."
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WHEN: Monday, June 12, 2006 @ 9:30am
WHERE: JPR Mediation Centre
390 Bay St. (at Wellesley) - 3rd Floor, Toronto
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For further information: David Eisenstadt, Communications Counsel, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center For Holocaust Studies, c/o The Communications Group Inc., (800) 267-4476, ext. 36 (deisenstadt@tcgpr.com)
Source: newswire
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