Hate Speech is widely controversial and relevant issue of contention in today’s age of prolific mass communications. To what extent does restricting hate speech impede on individual liberty? Does hate speech laws stifle the discovery of truth? Does it inhibit self-realization? The Supreme Court had to tackle these questions in the infamous R. v. Keegstra case of 1982. Mr. Keegstra was a high school social teacher who taught in Eckville Alberta for ten years (OJEN, 2008:1). Although he was described as being well liked among his students, he quickly gained notoriety through the country when it was discovered that he was teaching racially charged, incorrect messages about the Holocaust, claiming that it did not happen and was fabricated by
