Blacklock's Reporter

Protestors convicted of attempting to intimidate Canadians under hate crime amendments to the Criminal Code should pay the cost of prosecution, the Senate was told yesterday. The proposal follows complaints that one of Canada’s largest Orthodox synagogues now spends a million a year on security: “Where hatred is the animating force behind a serious crime, requiring an offender to bear some of those costs is a signal that a community’s safety should not be taken for granted.”