Ian Kagedan

Ian Kagedan (March 2, 1955 – February 17, 2014) was a Canadian public servant known for his work on inter-religious and inter-ethnic relations. Formerly National Director of Government Relations of B'nai Brith Canada He was appointed to serve on the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.[1]

Kagedan, who was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was educated at Columbia University and at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City. He died in February 2014 at the age of 58.[2]

Positions

Kagedan is noted for arguing that Hate propaganda can do damage by changing attitudes "even when the audience is unreceptive." [3][4][5]

Kagedan has supported the Canadian ban on telephone hate messages, saying that, "It is not a matter of free speech. It is poison."[6]

Awards

Kagedan is a recipient of the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal (January 1993).

Notes
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2010-02-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/montrealgazette/obituary.aspx?n=ian-kagedan-kage&pid=169747272&fhid=14718
  3. Mink, Karen R., Holocaust and Hope, in F. C. DeCoste, Bernard Schwartz, The Holocaust's ghost: writings on art, politics, law, and education, University of Alberta Press, 2000, p. 467
  4. Kinsella, Warren, Web of hate: inside Canada's far right network, harper Collins, 1994, p. 375
  5. Chambers, Anne Lorene, Married women and property law in Victorian Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 1997, p. 126
  6. "Injunction Bans Telephone Hate Messages," The Jewish Post & News, April 1, 1992.
gollark: Skynet is actually older than you are.
gollark: Skynet does application-level pings, the websocket ping frames are kind of annoying.
gollark: The issue with the websocket protocol-level ping is that neither JS nor CC can actually see if one was received recently, as far as I can tell.
gollark: Yes, skynet does that, but mostly so it can detect disconnected clients itself and obliterate them rapidly.
gollark: From my experience, nginx and such will kill websocket connections if they're without activity for a bit by default.
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