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Nov 2021
39m 41s

(Short Cuts) The Right To Be Awful

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The 'saying-stuff business' gets some clarity from different courts regarding what one can and cannot express online; the results may surprise you. And former prime minister Jean Chrétien gets the media to let him off the hook for his involvement with residential schools for a brief moment. 


Columnist and Canadaland's French-language correspondent Emilie Nicolas co-hosts. 

Links:

  • Full Tout le monde en parle Jean Chrétien segment here (14~ min mark for the discussion re: residential schools);
  • Full Tout le monde en parle author Michel Jean segment here (where Jean challenges some of Chrétien's comments at 3:30~);

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