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Canadian Human Rights Commission, "Thought Crimes", and trial of Mark Steyn
http://ezralevant.com/2008/05/government-to-launch-inquiry-i.html
I wonder if a new "Fairness Doctrine" along the lines of the CHRC is in our future....Edit to add that coverage of the HRC trial of Mark Steyn starts on post #8.
http://ezralevant.com/2008/05/government-to-launch-inquiry-i.html
I wonder if a new "Fairness Doctrine" along the lines of the CHRC is in our future....Edit to add that coverage of the HRC trial of Mark Steyn starts on post #8.
The Conservative government has introduced a motion to Parliament's Justice Committee proposing an investigation into the abusive, corrupt practises of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. The motion specifically refers to public "concerns" about the CHRC's "investigative techniques" and their "interpretation and application" of the section 13 thought crimes provision........
I don't think the CHRC is going to be a pleasant place to work for the next year or so -- longer if criminal charges are laid.
These official investigations are on top of the nearly-unanimous public outrage at the CHRC's behaviour, which has drawn criticism from across the ideological spectrum. Groups ranging from PEN Canada, to the Canadian Association of Journalists, to the former executive director of EGALE, to the head of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, to every newspaper in the country from right to left, have united in opposition to the CHRC.......
No doubt, Canada's grievance industry -- the race hustlers, the second-rate lawyers, everyone who makes a buck off the system -- will be at any inquiry in spades, arguing desperately, maybe even in tears, for the retention of their meal ticket. They have to be countered; this can't become another convention of complainers-for-hire like the Canadian Race Relations farce I attended. It's got to represent not only the aforementioned pro-free-speech groups, but plenty of "severely normal" people, too. I think witnesses ought to include Canadian soldiers fighting in Afghanistan, to ask them what they think of the importance of freedom and the price we should pay to defend it.
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