Is this racist filth fit for public broadcasting in our country?

Here is Section 319(2) of the Criminal Code of Canada:

Every one who, by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, wilfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group is guilty of

(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or

(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.

In his hateful rant on SubTV, Levant made statements about the Roma comparable to the material published in Nazi journals like Der Stürmer and Völkischer Beobachter. A couple of choice excerpts:

These are Gypsies, a culture synonymous with swindlers. The phrase Gypsy and cheater have been so interchangeable historically that the word has entered the English language as a verb. He gypped me! Well the gypsies have gypped us too.

And they [gypsies] come here to gyp us again, to rob us blind, as they have done in Europe for centuries.

Gypsies aren’t a race, they’re not a religion, they’re not a linguistic group. They’re the medieval prototype of the Occupy Wall Street movement. A shiftless group of hoboes that doesn’t believe in property rights for themselves - they’re nomads - or for others. They rob people blind. Now the scourge has come to Canada through fake refugee claims.

Levant should be arrested and charged with criminal hate speech without delay.

For decent folk—the following would be utterly wasted on hatemongers like Levant—here is a good documentary about Canadian Roma:

I, for one, don’t want to see these people deported or imprisoned in concentration camps. Do you?