This guy from Ontario. Run to Calgary can run for mayor! LOL!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/kevin-johnston-sentence-1.6198801
Kevin J. Johnston gets 18 months in jail for violating hate speech order against Paramount Fine Foods owner
Calgary mayoral candidate to begin sentence in January when legally allowed to return to Ontario
Shanifa Nasser · CBC News · Posted: Oct 04, 2021 12:30 PM ET | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
Kevin J. Johnston was not being sentenced for his political views but for six separate acts of contempt against court, an Ontario judge said Monday. (Derek Storie/Facebook)
Kevin J. Johnston has been sentenced to 18 months behind bars for publicly branding Mohamad Fakih a "terrorist" and a "baby killer" after being ordered to stop defaming the Paramount Fine Foods owner in 2019.
The sentence comes after Johnston was charged earlier this year with contempt for continuing to make racist, defamatory statements about Fakih despite an Ontario judge having ordered him to stop, finding he exhibited "
hate speech at its worst, targeting people solely because of their religion.
Justice Fred Myers said Monday that Johnston was not being sentenced for his political views but for six separate acts of contempt against court. Myers sentenced Johnston to three consecutive months per act, to begin after he is legally allowed back in Ontario, starting Jan. 4, 2022.
At the end of the first 15 months, Johnston is ordered to return to court so a judge can consider varying the sentence based on possible acts of contempt between now and then.
"He actively undermines the rule of law and to some degree at least seems to be calling for or supporting the overthrow of our democratic institutions," Myers said.
"He says that he's been painted as a bad person by the liberal media... If Mr. Johnston's portrait has been painted, he supplied the paint."
As part of his decision, Myers said he considered whether jail time might portray Johnston as a "martyr to the cause" in the eyes of his followers or play into Johnston's claims that he is being silenced for his views. He also considered the impact of Johnston's actions on vulnerable and racialized people who might not have the resources available to Fakih.
"If the court is powerless to stop unrelenting, awful, racist attacks against a man like Mr. Fakih, how are the powerless to feel welcome or safe in Canada... There is a need in this case for a sentence that makes the public sit up and take notice."
The sentence comes just weeks after Johnston, a Calgary mayoral candidate, also pleaded guilty to a hate crime in connection for anti-Muslim posts online.
In a statement to CBC News, one of Fakih's lawyers Niklas Holmberg called Myers's decision "an important affirmation of the rule of law in this country.
"It confirms that all Canadians can expect to be protected by the courts and that nobody is above the law."