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The organizer of a screening of the controversial film Killing Europe at the Ottawa Public Library last November has applied for a judicial review of the library’s decision to cancel the showing.
Madeline Weld claims in her application, which was filed Monday in Toronto, that the library’s decision to cancel “violated (her) constitutional right to free expression” as well as the rights of the audience to see the film.
Weld argues the library “acted arbitrarily and unreasonably” by cancelling the screening and asks the court to force the library to allow the film to be shown.
Weld, a retired public servant, booked the film on behalf of ACT for Canada, an organization that says it wishes “to defend our country by speaking out in defence of our democratic values, our security and our liberty against the rise of Islamism.”