Can a request for assistance be made without a license?

Alberta, Canada


The following excerpt is from Epilepsy Canada v. Alberta (Attorney General), 1994 ABCA 194 (CanLII):

Clearly the legislation effects a direct and express restriction on freedom of expression, when it bans all requests for assistance without a license. Asking for a donation is speech, whether it be done orally, or by sending a letter, or by publishing an advertisement in the media. And the speech and its content are the heart of the matter; this is neither incidental nor speech in form only. To ask for money is to express meaning deliberately. See Irwin Toy v. A.-G. Québec 1989 CanLII 87 (SCC), [1989] 1 S.C.R. 927, 969-71.

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