Courts not the place to fight hate
David Ahenakew is back in the news.
After a series of problems and appeals in his first round of battles with the Crown, Ahenakew faces a new trial under Canada's hate laws. The former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations was initially charged in 2002 for uttering vile comments about Hitler and the Jews. He was convicted in 2005 but that ruling was overturned a year later. Its dismissal was reconfirmed last month.
Some of the country's leading Jewish ...
