Keegstra Freedom Of Expression Case Study

Everyone has a right to express themselves in any way they want to. Saying and expressing your thoughts to people is an activity that everyone practices on a day to day basis. Some might might think that because they have authority they have the right to teach or in force their views to the ones they are teaching and no one can tell them to stop, because they have the right to talk and express their views to people. This is call freedom of expression and it is a fundamental right that every citizen of Canada has, and has the right to practice, because it is a right it has to have a purpose and those who violate it have to pay the consequences. Just like the charges that R.V. Keegstra faced for exerting his right of freedom of expression while teaching.

To understand why I agree with the decision of the court, which was that there should be some limitation to the freedom of expression, I am going to provide the definition of freedom of expression.

This was a milestone because everyone can express what they think and believe and tell other people what are their opinions but when you are influencing kids then you there should be a limit to what you can express to your students. The court was right in letting Keegstra go because it is not a severe lawsuit or an infraction of the law. Keegstra had the right to express what his views are on the topic of the holocaust but he did not have the right to make his students follow the same views as he did. His students had the right to make up their minds on what they thought on the topic, if they kept listening to their teacher they could have grown to have the sames views and start hating the Jew community for no reason. Freedom of expression is a fundamental right that we all have, it is a good thing until someone starts spreading hate propaganda towards a certain group then that should be stopped and