The law was later repealed by a vote in parliament, taking effect June 18 2014[2] [3] prior to the 2015 Canadian federal election, citing the increased use of social media.

However, in the federal election in 2000, one Paul Charles Bryan published results from Atlantic Canada on the Internet despite being told not to by the authorities.

[6] The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation also supported Bryan, hoping to "make election night a bigger event that [sic] it already is.

[13] On the topic of freedom of expression, Bastarache questioned the value of spreading election results, and said that there was no evidence this could outweigh the principles of democracy of section 329.

and Binnie, LeBel and Abella JJ: The s 329 publication ban is an excessive response to an insufficiently proven harm and a violation of s 2(b) of the Charter that cannot be justified under s 1.

The government's s 1 justification falters fatally in its submission that the benefits of the limitation on the freedom of expression are proportional to its harmful effects.