The bill sponsored by Premier I. A. Taschereau, respecting defamatory libel, which is intended to curb anti-Semitic agitation in the Province, has been made public and reads as follows:
“Any judge of the Superior Court may grant an interlocutory injunction whenever any newspaper, publication, pamphlet or any printed matter whatsoever publishes, continuously or repeatedly, or whenever any one distributes, writings or articles which in the opinion of the judge constitute an infringement of the provisions of the Criminal Code of Canada, respecting defamatory libel.”
The bill was introduced in the Provincial Legislature on February 22, in
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