MONTREAL — Giving your neighbor the finger, while maybe not polite, is protected as part of the bird-flipper's right to freedom of expression under the Canadian Constitution, a judge recently ruled. In a 26-page decision, Judge Dennis Galiatsatos of the French-speaking province of Quebec dismissed a case against a man accused of harassing his neighbor in a Montreal suburb. 'To be abundantly clear, it is not a crime to give someone the finger,' he said in a ruling dated February 24. 'Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, Charter-enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian,' he added, referring to Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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