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One of the most famous ongoing censorship controversies in Canada has been the dispute between Canada Customs and LGBT retail bookstores such as Little Sister's in Vancouver and Glad Day in Toronto. Through the 1980s and into the 1990s, Canada Customs frequently stopped material being shipped to the two stores on the grounds of "obscenity".
Freedom of expression in Canada is protected as a "fundamental freedom" by section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; however, in practice the Charter permits the government to enforce "reasonable" limits censoring speech. Hate speech, obscenity, and defamation are common categories of restricted speech in Canada.
Sign at the Toronto Public Library against censorship. Book Censorship in Canada is primarily limited to the control of which books may be imported. Canada Border Services Agency is able to block materials considered to be inappropriate from entering the country, although this practice has become less frequent since the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was put into place.
Banned in Canada from 1945 to 1975 under the influence of Smart's family's political power due to its sexual documentation of Smart's affair with a married man. The Naked and the Dead (1948) Norman Mailer: 1948 Novel Banned in Canada in 1949 for "obscenity". [53] Lolita (1955) Vladimir Nabokov: 1955 Novel Banned in Canada in 1956.
Hate speech laws in Canada include provisions in the federal Criminal Code, as well as statutory provisions relating to hate publications in three provinces and one territory. The Criminal Code creates criminal offences with respect to different aspects of hate propaganda, although without defining the term "hatred".
Canada has no legislation specifically restricting the ownership, display, purchase, import, or export of Nazi flags. However, sections 318–320 of the Criminal Code, [39] adopted by Canada's parliament in 1970 and based in large part on the 1965 Cohen Committee recommendations, [40] make it an offence to advocate or promote genocide, to communicate a statement in public inciting hatred ...
Censorship by country collects information on censorship, Internet censorship, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and human rights by country and presents it in a sortable table, together with links to articles with more information. In addition to countries, the table includes information on former countries, disputed countries ...
The National Film Board of Canada blocks the release of Denys Arcand's controversial documentary. An edited version is released in 1976, but the original unedited version was not released until 2004. [16] [17] 1970 Women in Love: The Alberta censors banned the film due to nudity. [18] 1971 A Clockwork Orange