Hate Charge 

Who needs Human Rights Tribunals when we have laws mitigating against hate crimes?  Which is to say truly odious hate crimes whose perpetrators insult the morals and intelligence of those exposed to the vitriol and bile through which vehicles human beings are held in contempt by racist-minded bigots.

So, as the target of that extreme type of racist invective it is reassuring and comforting in the extreme to know that Canada has laws on its books to ensure that no one or no identifiable group is subject to searing episodes of of blatant and unabashed incitement to hatred and contempt without penalty, as the laws are at our back.

Except that ... there appear to be exceptions to what is construed hopefully as the general rule.  Terrence Tremaine, formerly with the University of Saskatchewan as a math lecturer, had his charge of wilfully promoting hatred as a result of Internet posts made referring to Jews as a "parasitic race", and to black culture as "fundamentally depraved and disgusting" stayed.

Court of Queen's Bench Justice Fred Kovach stayed the charge, on the basis of their having been an unacceptable delay of 50 months between the time the charge was lodged and the time the case took to get to trial.

Mr. Tremaine was charged in 2008, and his hate charge stayed in 2012.  His crime did not evaporate into thin air, but justice somehow appears to have dissolved with time.