If You Do Not Have Anything Nice to Say: Charter Issues with the Offence of Defamatory Libel
"The Criminal Code continues to include serious criminal offences for defaming other people. These provisions exist separately from ordinary civil defamation actions and can potentially criminalize true statements. They remain controversial, yet under-studied. While the narrower offence found in section 300 has been upheld at the Supreme Court of Canada, its more expansive sister provision in section 301 has never been evaluated by an appellate court
