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EXCERPT: . . . The Nova Scotia plate, which Grabher had for nearly 30 years, was revoked in 2016 by the province’s Registrar of Motor Vehicles after the agency received a complaint from a woman who said it promoted hatred toward women.
In January, Justice Darlene Jamieson decided that licence plates are not “public spaces” with a history of free expression. [...] “This decision is not about whether Mr. Grabher’s surname is offensive –– it is not,” Jamieson wrote. “The primary function of a licence plate is not expression but is identification and regulation of vehicle ownership. A licence plate by its very nature is a private government space.”
The Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which is supporting Grabher, says there is no evidence that anyone has ever committed a sexual assault because they saw Grabher’s licence plate. “The plate is an expression of the Grabher’s family pride over three generations, reflecting their German-Austrian roots and heritage,” the centre said in a statement released Monday. “There was no evidence that anyone, including the anonymous complainant, had suffered any harm as a result of the plate. There is no evidence that censoring Mr. Grabher’s name after 27 years of use on a license plate makes anyone safer.”
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EXCERPT: . . . The Nova Scotia plate, which Grabher had for nearly 30 years, was revoked in 2016 by the province’s Registrar of Motor Vehicles after the agency received a complaint from a woman who said it promoted hatred toward women.
In January, Justice Darlene Jamieson decided that licence plates are not “public spaces” with a history of free expression. [...] “This decision is not about whether Mr. Grabher’s surname is offensive –– it is not,” Jamieson wrote. “The primary function of a licence plate is not expression but is identification and regulation of vehicle ownership. A licence plate by its very nature is a private government space.”
The Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which is supporting Grabher, says there is no evidence that anyone has ever committed a sexual assault because they saw Grabher’s licence plate. “The plate is an expression of the Grabher’s family pride over three generations, reflecting their German-Austrian roots and heritage,” the centre said in a statement released Monday. “There was no evidence that anyone, including the anonymous complainant, had suffered any harm as a result of the plate. There is no evidence that censoring Mr. Grabher’s name after 27 years of use on a license plate makes anyone safer.”
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