Does Canada permit free speech?

Your right to free speech in Canada ends where the other person's rights begin.

In Canada you have the right to say and print anything you want, with the exceptions that society places on it. I can say to you and a small group of people that I hate group X, I have the right to stand on a street corner and shout out that I hate group X. But as long as I do not advocate or incite violence toward group X I am on the good side of Canada's hate speech laws. The however to this is that a member of group X could take you to the human rights commission which is a quasi legal system that decides if you have violated someone's rights.

Using your example of a tattoo with, "Death to Canada," unless it was tattooed across you forehead it wouldn't raise an eye brow here, and wouldn't be enough reason to refuse you entry. Well that is unless the border guard took exception to it. There IS a possibility that it could be considered hate speech because it advocate death to a particular group BUT being that it is Canada and not group X that would be up to a tribunal to decide.

Of course Canada permits Free Speech.

Free Speech is legal - not illegal - speech.

Legal speech is exactly what the term implies: speech not prohibited by law.

Illegal speech is stuff like perjury, slander, libel, defamation and etc.

That's what Free Speech actually is and it's always had those limitations everywhere it exists.

Even in the US where poorly-educated people foolishly & mistakenly think there's no limits.

A tattoo is not SPEECH.

A tattoo in and of itself would not ban you from Canada. It may result in a check of your background and that could ban you from Canada. It is what you do with the tattoo not the tattoo itself.

Your rights stop where mine begin . I am not required to LISTEN to you so do not yell in my face.

I do not have to look at you and really have no interest in looking at peoples body art,their navels or the colour and style of their underwear. I try to look above the neck and behind the nose. Some call it the brain. I would rather deal with YOU not your skin covering.

Canada's "charter" is a Liberal manifesto designed to perpetuate the will of St Pierre of Outremont. Have you ever observed that "gender" is just not integrated within the various classes blanketed from hate speech? Why? For the reason that it might stiffle feminists whose stock in exchange is vilifying guys, and a coven of them stood watching over Trudeau's shoulder as he drafted the item.

Yes.

However, it does work a bit differently than in the USA.

In Canada, your right to say what you want is limited by the right of another person's rights. So, your rights only extend so far. E.g., if you want to do "hate" speech against a particular race, that is a no-no, as you then infringe their rights So, your rights end where another's begin. That is not the same as in the USA.

Apart from that distinction, yes, Canada has free speech, and a free press as well.

Steve, of course, Canada are advocates of free speech. But it can not insight acts of riots or terrorism, no can it of personal offense.

You will find that this is similar to places like Australia, England, New Zealand, you will find those stipulations.

Yes. You can say a lot of things without getting shot in the head unlike the so called land of the free that is the USA.

Yes... says so in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

"2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:

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(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;

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Limits to it are only include fraud, lying under oath, providing false documents, incitement, advocating genocide, etc.

As long as you don't offend anyone.They can take you to the human rights commision.It's like going to court except there are no rules of evidence and no real judges.