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James Keegstra
James "Jim" Keegstra is a far-right Canadian figure. An auto mechanic and teacher in Eckville , Alberta, Keegstra was stripped of this teaching certificate and charged in 1984 under the Criminal Code of Canada with "wilfully promoting hatred against an identifiable group" by teaching his students that the Holocaust was a fraud and that Jews are "treacherous, evil and responsible for depressions, anarchy and war." The case was ultimately heard by the Supreme Court of Canada which, in 1990, upheld the law's prohibition of hate propaganda as constitutional.
Keegstra was also active in the Social Credit Party of Canada and ran unsuccessfully for the party's leadership in 1986.
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