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This summary, based on these comments and observations, is appropriate for discussion and debate in the classroom setting.<\/p>\n<h3><em>R v Bryan<\/em>, 2007 SCC 12, [2007] 1 SCR 527<\/h3>\n<p>The accused was charged contrary to the <em>Canada Elections Act&nbsp;<\/em>for publishing election results from Atlantic Canada while polling stations were still open elsewhere in Canada. &nbsp;The Supreme Court of Canada was asked to determine whether the law prohibiting the transmission of election results was constitutional.&nbsp; A narrow majority of the court held that while this prohibition infringed the right to freedom of expression under the <em>Charter<\/em>, this limit on the right was justified because it ensured informational equality across Canada.&nbsp;The full decision is available <a href=\"http:\/\/scc.lexum.org\/en\/2007\/2007scc12\/2007scc12.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","resource-type":[10],"area-of-law":[138],"subject-area":[18],"grade-level":[23,24,25],"resource-audience":[],"resource-format":[],"class_list":["post-728","resource","type-resource","status-publish","hentry","resource-type-case-summaries","area-of-law-charter-law","subject-area-law","grade-level-grade-10","grade-level-grade-11","grade-level-grade-12"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Top Five 2007: R v Bryan - OJEN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Top Five 2007: R v Bryan - OJEN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Each year at OJEN\u2019s Toronto Summer Law Institute, a judge from the Court of Appeal for Ontario identifies five cases that are of significance in the educational setting. 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