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Canadian Human Rights Commission Launches Independent Review On Hate Messaging on the Internet

Independent Study

Professor Moon will conduct legal and policy research and analysis and make recommendations on the most appropriate mechanisms for addressing hate messages (and more particularly those on the Internet), with specific emphasis on section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the role of the Commission.

In conducting his study, Professor Moon will take into consideration:

• existing statutory and regulatory mechanisms – whether they are appropriate and/or whether they require change;
• the mandates of human rights commissions and tribunals, as well as other government institutions presently engaged in addressing hate messages on the Internet;
• whether other governmental or non-governmental organizations might have a role to play and if so, what that role might be;
• Canadian human rights principles, including but not limited to, those contained in the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms;
• mechanisms used in other countries; and,
• Canada’s international human rights obligations.

View the contract. 

Section 13

For information on section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

Richard J. Moon, Professor of Law

Professor Richard J. Moon is a leading constitutional expert on freedom of religion, freedom of expression and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

A recognized researcher and writer, Professor Moon teaches Law at the University of Windsor. His teachings and writings have informed generations of law students in Canada and the United States. He is the author of The Constitutional Protection of Freedom of Expression, and of three chapters of the leading constitutional law casebook in Canada, Canadian Constitutional Law"

He is a past president of the Canadian Law Society Association and is the former Fellow of the University of Windsor Humanities Research Group.

View Richard Moon’s biography.