Ottawa City News reports on the sentencing by a Saskatchewan trial court of the leader of a now defunct political party for violation of Canada’s hate speech law:
The former leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party was handed a one-year sentence Thursday on a hate speech charge after he called for the genocide of Jewish people in a video posted on the party’s website and social media accounts.
Travis Patron, who founded the now-defunct party, was convicted of wilfully promoting hate by a jury earlier this month during a trial in Estevan, Sask.
Justice Neil Robertson of Court of King’s Bench accepted the Crown’s recommendation that the 31-year-old serve one year behind bars.