Petitioners Aim At Libel Law

Petitioners are urging Parliament to repeal an obscure federal law that makes blasphemous libel an indictable offence. Prosecutors last used the Criminal Code provision to charge distributors of a Monty Python film in 1979: “They should get this arcane law off the books”.

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