A bill to amend the Criminal Code by provisions dealing with the dissemination of hate propaganda was part of a list of pending measures tabled by the Minister of National Health and Welfare, A. J. MacEachen, who is leader of the Canadian House of Commons. The measure was discussed at a McGill University faculty of Law Panel during the recent Centennial Week, chaired by Dean Maxwell Cohen and attended by lawyers, publishers and Saul Hayes, executive vice-president of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
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