# What is the Standard of Free Expression in Canada?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-standard-of-free-expression-in-canada/191587>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 29, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-standard-of-free-expression-in-canada/191587 "2003-07-29T03:46:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@The\_Ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ryan)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-standard-of-free-expression-in-canada/191587/21 "2003-07-31T04:00:35Z")

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Larry Mudd:  
I don’t fully understand the nature or scope of your epiphany (so parts of this response may be redundant, and parts may be incomplete), but I do appreciate your apology, and would like to offer my own if my original response seemed snarky; I originally wrote a different response, decided the issue was more appropiate to GD, and that’s what prompted my response.

I don’t know if these were included in your ephiphany, but there are two points that I would like to make. First, you seem to be unaware of the differing meanings that the word “government” has North and South of the border. Second, I don’t think that it is accurate to describe criminal code as limiting the Constitution; it has no such authority. Rather, criminal code presents limitations _which were already allowed in the Constitution_.

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