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'''Richard Warman''' is an [[Ottawa]]-based lawyer who is active in human rights law. Warman worked for the [[Canadian Human Rights Commission]] (CHRC) from July 2002 until March 2004. He is best known as the primary instigator of actions related to Internet content under Section 13(1) of the [[Canadian Human Rights Act]] against people including [[White supremacy|white supremacists]] and [[Neo-Nazism|neo-Nazis]].<ref name="Brean">{{cite news|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1954734|title=Hate speech law unconstitutional: rights tribunal|author=Joseph Brean|date=2009-09-02|newspaper=[[National Post]]|access-date=2010-10-28}}</ref>
Warman wrote a detailed report on Internet hate in Canada for [[B'nai B'rith]]'s ''Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents'',<ref>
==Education==
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===Human Rights Commissions===
Warman has initiated a large number of complaints against groups and individuals, alleging violations of Section 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act. He has been identified as the primary complainant under this provision.<ref name="Brean" /><ref name="quagmire">{{Cite
In addition to Kyburz and Eldon Warman, Warman also raised concerns about [[Wally Dove]], another member of the Canadian detax movement who was attempting to use his qualifications as a Certified General Accountant (CGA) to promote unlawful tax evasion schemes. The Chartered General Accountants of Ontario later revoked Dove's CGA and obtained an injunction ordering him to stop claiming to be a CGA thereafter.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}}
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Warman has won ten of the cases he has brought before the [[Canadian Human Rights Tribunal]] (CHRT),<ref>CHRT decisions related to the following individuals and groups are in the footnote links after their names:
Fred Kyburz.[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t726_3102de.pdf];
Eldon Warman.{{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t869_11903de.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611071615/http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t869_11903de.pdf |archive-date=June 11, 2012 |access-date=April 10, 2015}};
Alexan Kulbashian, James Scott Richardson and the Canadian Ethnic Cleansing Team, Affordable-space.com.{{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t869_11903de.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611071615/http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t869_11903de.pdf |archive-date=June 11, 2012 |access-date=April 10, 2015}}; Tomasz Winnicki.[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t10210205_er_13april06.pdf]; Craig Harrison (for postings on [[Marc Lemire]]'s ''Freedomsite'') [http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t1072_5305ed15aug06.pdf]; Peter Kouba.[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t1071_5205er22nov06.pdf]; [[Glenn Bahr]] and [[Western Canada for Us]] .[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/view_html.asp?doid=811&lg=_e&isruling=0]; Terry Tremaine.[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/warman%20v.%20tremaine%20decision.pdf]; Bobby Wilkinson and his Canadian Nazi Party.[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/view_html.asp?doid=852&lg=_e&isruling=0]; Jessica Beaumont.[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/view_html.asp?doid=874&lg=_e&isruling=0]</ref> and two more have been successfully mediated after the individuals had left the neo-Nazi movement and renounced their beliefs.▼
▲}}; Tomasz Winnicki.[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t10210205_er_13april06.pdf]; Craig Harrison (for postings on [[Marc Lemire]]'s ''Freedomsite'') [http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t1072_5305ed15aug06.pdf]; Peter Kouba.[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t1071_5205er22nov06.pdf]; [[Glenn Bahr]] and [[Western Canada for Us]] .[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/view_html.asp?doid=811&lg=_e&isruling=0]; Terry Tremaine.[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/warman%20v.%20tremaine%20decision.pdf]; Bobby Wilkinson and his Canadian Nazi Party.[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/view_html.asp?doid=852&lg=_e&isruling=0]; Jessica Beaumont.[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/view_html.asp?doid=874&lg=_e&isruling=0]</ref> and two more have been successfully mediated after the individuals had left the neo-Nazi movement and renounced their beliefs.
The CHRT has consistently upheld Warman's complaints against the following individuals and groups:
[[Fred Kyburz]];<ref name=":0" />
[[Eldon Warman]];<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|url=http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t869_11903de.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=April 10, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120611071615/http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t869_11903de.pdf |archive-date=June 11, 2012 }}</ref>
[[Alexan Kulbashian]], James Scott Richardson and the Canadian Ethnic Cleansing Team, Affordable-space.com;<ref name=autogenerated1 /> [[Tomasz Winnicki (political activist)|Tomasz Winnicki]];<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060831222709/http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t10210205_er_13april06.pdf Canadian Human Rights Tribunal] </ref> [[Craig Harrison (writer)|Craig Harrison]] (for postings on [[Marc Lemire]]'s ''Freedomsite'');<ref>[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t1072_5305ed15aug06.pdf Warman v. Harrison.book<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Peter Kouba;<ref>[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t1071_5205er22nov06.pdf Kouba Decision T1071.book<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> [[Glenn Bahr]] and [[Western Canada for Us]];<ref>[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/view_html.asp?doid=811&lg=_e&isruling=0 Warman v. Bahr<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> [[Terry Tremaine]].;<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160122021101/http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/warman%20v.%20tremaine%20decision.pdf Canadian Human Rights Tribunal] </ref> [[Bobby Wilkinson]] and his [[Canadian Nazi Party]];<ref>[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/view_html.asp?doid=852&lg=_e&isruling=0 Warman v. Wilkinson<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and [[Jessica Beaumont]].<ref>[http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/view_html.asp?doid=874&lg=_e&isruling=0 Warman v. Beaumont<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
====''Warman v. Lemire''====
On September 2, 2009, in the case of Warman's complaint against [[Marc Lemire]], Canadian Human Rights Tribunal member Athanasios Hadjis found Section 13 of the Canada Human Rights Act to be unconstitutional, as it infringed unjustifiably on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms' guarantee of freedom of expression.<ref>Bhatt, Ankur, "Warman vs. Lemire: The Unconstitutionality of Hate Speech Legislation," The Court, http://www.thecourt.ca/2009/09/22/warman-v-lemire-the-constitutionality-of-hate-speech-legislation/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100807040707/http://www.thecourt.ca/2009/09/22/warman-v-lemire-the-constitutionality-of-hate-speech-legislation/ |date=2010-08-07 }}</ref> Hadjis thus declined to impose a penalty on Lemire.<ref name=trib>{{cite web | url = https://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5g-sQIC175Deo3aAwXy9H79lGF1hg | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090912083650/http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5g-sQIC175Deo3aAwXy9H79lGF1hg | url-status = dead | archive-date = 12 September 2009 | title = Tribunal declares Internet hate speech law unconstitutional | publisher = The Canadian Press | access-date = 2009-09-02}}</ref> As Hadjis is not a judge and the tribunal is not a court, his decision does not carry sufficient weight to strike down the section as ''[[Ultra vires#Constitutional law|ultra vires]]''.<ref name=trib/> As a result, the ruling is not binding beyond ''Lemire''.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/hate-speech-law-violates-charter-rights-tribunal-rules/article1273956/ | title = Hate-speech law violates Charter rights, tribunal rules unconstitutional | newspaper = The Globe and Mail | access-date = 2009-09-03 | location=Toronto | first=Susan | last=Krashinsky | date=September 2, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.macleans.ca/general/it-took-a-while-but-section-13-is-dead/|title=It took a while but Section 13 is dead - Macleans.ca|website=www.macleans.ca|access-date=2019-06-17}}</ref> However, the Tribunal has suspended further hearings in some active cases while awaiting a higher court ruling in ''Lemire''.<ref name="Makow" />
On October 1, 2009, the Commission appealed the decision in ''Lemire'' to the Federal Court.<ref name="Makow">{{cite web|url=http://chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/aspinc/search/vhtml-eng.asp?doid=1012&lg=_e&isruling=0|title=Canadian Jewish Congress v. Makow|date=2010-05-26|access-date=2010-10-28}}</ref> The Canadian government has chosen not to intervene in the Federal Court case, although it had defended the constitutionality of Section 13(1) before the Tribunal.<ref name="Brean2">{{cite news|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/Ottawa+withdraws+from+clash+interests+over+hate+speech/3715859/story.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20110127234756/http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Ottawa+withdraws+from+clash+interests+over+hate+speech/3715859/story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-01-27|title=Ottawa withdraws from clash of interests over hate speech law|author=Joseph Brean|date=2010-10-23|newspaper=[[National Post]]|access-date=2010-10-28}}</ref> In February 2014, the Federal Court of Appeal ruled against Lemire in a decision that found Section 13 to be constitutionally valid and reinstated the penalty section and the CHRT's cease and desist order against Lemire violating Section 13, regardless of the fact that by that point the section had already been repealed by parliament.<ref name=const>{{cite news|title=Court finds Internet hate speech law Section 13 to be constitutionally valid, doesn't violate freedom of expression|url=http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/court-finds-internet-hate-speech-law-section-13-to-be-constitutionally-valid-doesnt-violate-freedom-of-expression|access-date=July 1, 2015|work=National Post|date=February 2, 2014}}</ref>
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====Jason Ouwendyk and the Northern Alliance====
Warman has also sued Jason Ouwendyk and his white supremacist group the Northern Alliance for libel.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Canada/2009/03/14/8746111-sun.html |title=
====Paul Fromm and the Canadian Association for Free Expression====
Warman sued Paul Fromm and his [[Canadian Association for Free Expression]] for libeling him in various Internet posts. On November 23, 2007, Ontario Superior Court Justice Monique Métivier ruled in Warman's favour and ordered Fromm to pay Warman $30,000 in damages, and to post full retractions within ten days on all the websites on which he posted the defamatory comments. Métivier found that Fromm posted statements about Warman "either knowing the fundamental falseness of the accusations he levelled at Warman, or being reckless as to the truth of these."<ref>Don Butler, "[http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=d6a84a0b-b5af-4f45-a492-7d29dfe30345 Anti-racism activist wins libel judgment] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071129232408/http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=d6a84a0b-b5af-4f45-a492-7d29dfe30345 |date=2007-11-29 }}", ''Ottawa Citizen'', November 24, 2007</ref> The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the judgement and added $10,000 in costs against Fromm and his group. The Supreme Court of Canada later refused to give them leave to appeal further and again awarded costs against Fromm and his group.<ref>{{cite news| url=
====William Grosvenor====
Warman was awarded $50,000 in damages in 2008 after a successful suit for defamation, assault, and invasion of privacy against Albertan William Grosvenor.<ref>Warman v. Grosvenor, 2008 CanLII 57728 (On. S.C.) http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2008/2008canlii57728/2008canlii57728.html</ref> Grosvenor had sent emails and made a variety of posts over the course of the two prior
====National Post, Ezra Levant et al====
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Those statements and comments attacked the personal and professional reputation of Mr. Richard Warman. I retract and apologize to Mr. Warman for those statements and comments without reservation. In particular, in one of my website posts, I alleged that Mr. Richard Warman had posted a bigoted attack on the Internet against Senator Anne Cools. I have no evidence that this is true and I retract it and apologize to Mr. Warman for it without reservation.
– Signed Ezra Levant <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ezralevant.com/apology-to-richard-warman/ |title=
====Mark and Connie Fournier and Free Dominion====
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On August 9, 2013, the case finally began with jury selection. After 10 days of testimony, the jury was charged. On October 2, 2013, the jury found in Warman's favour, awarding him $42,000 in damages, plus costs which were later set at $85,000. Free Dominion closed to the public as a result. On December 11, 2015, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the lower court's ruling and awarded Warman an additional $23,000 in costs.<ref>{{cite web|title=Warman v. Fournier, 2015 ONCA 873|url=http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2015/2015onca873/2015onca873.html|website=CanLII|access-date=December 12, 2015}}</ref>
==== Jonathan and Barbara Kay ====
In 2019 Warman sued [[Jonathan Kay]] and [[Barbara Kay]] for libel in response to the two journalists linking the [[Canadian Anti-Hate Network]] (CAHN), an organization for which Warman currently as a board member, to "violent [[Antifa (United States)|ANTIFA]]".
In a judgement released on November 10, 2022 the claim was dismissed. In the judges reasons for the judgement it was noted that based on "the evidence disclosed...CAHN did in fact assist ANTIFA and that the movement has been violent". The judge went on to condemn Warman for what the judge described as "us[ing] litigation to silence or intimidate those he sees as his critics, or who oppose his methods of prosecuting hate groups".<ref>{{Cite tweet |url-access=limited |access-date=26 August 2023 |title=Register |user=jonkay |number=1590736287627378690 |url=https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1590736287627378690}}</ref>
==Political activism==
Warman ran as a [[Green Party of Canada]] candidate in the [[1997 Canadian federal election|1997 federal election]] in the [[Windsor West (federal electoral district)|Windsor West]] riding, and in the [[2000 Canadian federal election|2000 federal election]] in [[Ottawa—Orléans]], placing fifth on both occasions.<ref>
In 2006, Warman contributed to the Renewal Commission of the [[Liberal Party of Canada]]'s ''Report on Human Rights''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.liberal.ca/pdf/docs/FINALHumanRightsEN.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2007-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070319151118/http://www.liberal.ca/pdf/docs/FINALHumanRightsEN.pdf |archive-date=2007-03-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is also one of the backers of the reward fund established by the [[Assembly of First Nations]] in relation to the Gatineau murder of Kelly Morrisseau.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nwac-hq.org/en/documents/PressReleasereKellyMorrisseauPressConferenceatNAWSJune21-07.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2007-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928105306/http://www.nwac-hq.org/en/documents/PressReleasereKellyMorrisseauPressConferenceatNAWSJune21-07.pdf |archive-date=2007-09-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Death threats and violent rhetoric==
In addition to the threats against him by Bill White, Warman was the subject of further death threats after Tomasz Winnicki was sentenced to nine months in prison for violating a court injunction.<ref>
==Praise and criticism==
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