OFFENCE ELEMENTS - HARASSING COMMUNICATIONS
Public incitement of hatred
372(3) Everyone commits an offence who, without lawful excuse and with intent to harass a person, repeatedly communicates, or causes repeated communications to be made, with them by a means of telecommunication.
Punishment
(4) Everyone who commits an offence under this section is
(a) guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years; or
(b) guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
SELECTED CASE LAW
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ALBERTA:
2002 ABQB 862
2002 ABPC 137
BRITISH COLUMBIA:
2017 BCPC 118
2015 BCPC 417
2010 BCSC 779
2007 BCCA 252
2004 BCSC 683
2003 BCPC 293
2000 BCCA 411
MANITOBA:
2016 MBQB 171
2010 MBPC 9
NEW BRUNSWICK:
2015 NBQB 61
[1990] NBJ No 441 (NBQB)
NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR:
[2018] 144 WCB (2d) 480 (NLPC)
[2015] 370 Nfld & PEIR 235 (NLPC)
[2005] NJ No 110 (NLPC)
[2003] NJ No 307 (NLPC)
[2002] NJ No 310 (NLPC)
[1992] NJ No 73 (NLSC)
NOVA SCOTIA:
2004 NSCA 69
1996 NSCA 159
ONTARIO:
2011 ONCJ 14
2009 ONCJ 734
[2008] OJ No 2234 (ONSC)
[2007] 76 WCB (2d) 200 (ONSC)
[2005] OJ No 4602 (ONCJ)
[2004] OJ No 2440 (ONCA)
[1998] OJ No 3973 (ONCJ)
[1997] OJ No 534 (ONCJ)
SASKATCHEWAN:
2013 SKQB 239
2012 SKQB 507
2010 SKCA 152
2001 SKQB 298