Repealing Monty Python Law

Cabinet is repealing an obscure federal law against blasphemous libel. Prosecutors last used the Criminal Code provision to charge distributors of the 1979 Monty Python film Life Of Brian: “Just because people assume it is a dead letter law doesn’t mean it can’t come back.”

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