{"id":99165,"date":"2020-10-31T12:52:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T04:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=99165"},"modified":"2020-10-31T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T04:52:07","slug":"canada-free-speech-has-limits-should-not-hurt-other-communities-prime-minister-trudeau-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=99165","title":{"rendered":"Canada: Free speech has limits, should not hurt other communities, Prime Minister Trudeau says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Free-speech-has-limits-Canadas-Trudeau-says.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Free-speech-has-limits-Canadas-Trudeau-says.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OTTAWA, Oct 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended free speech on Friday, but added that it was \u201cnot without limits\u201d and should not \u201carbitrarily and needlessly hurt\u201d certain communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will always defend freedom of expression,\u201d Trudeau said in response to a question about the right to show a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad (SM), as Charlie Hebdo magazine did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut freedom of expression is not without limits,\u201d he added. \u201cWe owe it to ourselves to act with respect for others and to seek not to arbitrarily or unnecessarily injure those with whom we are sharing a society and a planet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe do not have the right for example to shout fire in a movie theatre crowded with people, there are always limits,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Distancing himself from the position of French President Emmanuel Macron, Trudeau pleaded for a \u201ccareful\u201d use of freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn a pluralist, diverse and respectful society like ours, we owe it to ourselves to be aware of the impact of our words, of our actions on others, particularly these communities and populations who still experience a great deal of discrimination,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As he had done the day before with the leaders of the European Union, Trudeau insisted on condemning the recent \u201cappalling and appalling\u201d terrorist attacks in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is unjustifiable and Canada wholeheartedly condemns these acts while standing with our French friends who are going through extremely difficult times,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three people were stabbed to death on Thursday in a church in Nice, in southern France, by a Tunisian man who was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anger erupted in the Middle East after the attacks against France and President Emmanuel Macron, vilified for having defended the right to publish the cartoons in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macron made the comments during a tribute last week to Samuel Paty, a teacher beheaded in the street for showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (SM) in class in a course on freedom of expression. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA, Oct 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended free speech on Friday, but added that it was \u201cnot without limits\u201d and should not \u201carbitrarily and needlessly hurt\u201d certain communities. \u201cWe will always defend freedom of expression,\u201d Trudeau said in response to a question about the right to show a caricature of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":99166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99165"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}