First, although it is the far-right, holding a memorial service for somebody who holds hateful views is quite different from hate speech, so there shouldn't be any question of this being illegal.

Second, "would you be ok with X?" is a very different from asking "should X be prohibited?" Just because something is bad, or even despicable, doesn't necessarily mean the government should make any effort to prevent it. The very definition of free society is that we have broad leeway, without the government trying to sort out 'good' from 'bad' speech. This doesn't mean we as a society have to tolerate it, but the principle of government non-interference is important. Even current hate speech laws over-reach, in the view of many free speech advocates.

With Ottawa now moving to remove blasphemy from the criminal code, we are going in the right direction on protected speech. Let's not reverse tack on issues like this.