But she joined with Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Antonin Scalia in voting to uphold the provision criminalizing computer-generated images, resulting in a 6-to-3 decision.

This law contains two provisions criminalizing two sorts of activity.

However, there are legal provisions criminalizing the desecration of religious artifacts at the time of worship, hate speech, racism, defamation, calumny and libel.

Justice Sopinka, writing for the Court, examined whether the provision criminalizing the trade in stolen precious metal ore could be justified under section 1 as the Crown had already conceded that it violated section 11(d).