The canadian law looks like it would never pass US Constitutional muster (thankfully). Making the "hate" a crime unto itself is basically thought crime. Pretty terrible.
In the US it is used only to increase sentences for existing crimes. Ie: you assault someone without hate and you get XX years, and WITH "hate" you get XX+2 years (or whatever).
Free people have to live with the fact that people might incite "hate." Comes with liberty. Sucks, but there you go. The rest of us can hate the haters, then we're even.
Example for Canada... let's say you have an organization of like-minded people that think a few other groups should ideally be considered 2d class citizens. They need to identify, and even pay special taxes for being different. Same group might think a 3d group is even lower. Is that hateful?
I note that it immunizes religious hate as long as it's in "good faith" WRT the hateful scriptures in question. Great. So inciting desire for (but not actually doing it) an Inquisition would be "good faith" and OK, while a political group doing the same thing... hateful.
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