One of few Conservative MP’s with a backbone – Jason Kenney – has weighed in. And the single national newspaper with a backbone is reporting it.
The federal minister in charge of Canada’s multiculturalism file cautioned an anti-racism conference Friday against exploiting the power of human rights commissions to silence offensive speech.
Addressing the annual gathering of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) in Calgary, Jason Kenney, a Cabinet member and Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity, labelled “dangerous” the “illiberal tactics” employed by some activists in the name of tolerance.
“I think it’s very important for those of us engaged in anti-racism efforts to ensure the tactics we use, the approaches that we take, are consistent with respect for the liberal values of the Charter of Rights, of the Canadian constitutional framework, of our democratic parliamentary institutions,” Mr. Kenney told the crowd of about 100.
And in front of a hostile crowd, no less. Get a load of this;
During a question-and-answer session, attendees pressed Mr. Kenney on his government’s decision to withdraw from the planned 2009 sequel to the UN’s World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Xenophobia in Durban, South Africa, held seven years ago and marked by widespread shows of anti-Semitism. One accused the Conservatives of following the Americans’ lead of “support for Israel.”
You don’t say!
Well, look at the bright side. In past months we’ve have seen Joan Bryden jump in with a Canadian Press item headlined “Jason Kenney Supports White Supremacist Cause”, so in this case silence is a step forward. (Actually, in most cases, silence from Joan Bryden is a step forward, but I digress…)
Also – David Warren is back, and don’t miss this clip of Mark Steyn on Mike Duffy, where Litigious Lucy’s name comes up. (CTV’s broadband is ridiculously cumbersome. If someone captures that to Youtube, let me know. )
Update – Youtubed here!
“At a time when “human rights” commissars such as Barbara Hall can make us deeply ashamed of our country, it is important to remember there are Canadians like Levant, Steyn, McMillan, and many others to make us proud.”
– David Warren
I didn’t want people to miss that sentence.
CTV needs to put the Mark Steyn interview on every hour on the hour till it drives home to the taxpayer the racket of Lucy W.
Great timing Kate! I had made a comment yesterday about Steyn, not sure why it got caught in the filter. I had just finished re-watching Duffy’s clip with Steyn.
I watched Duffy yesterday and I say he deserves TWO THUMBS UP! Duffy does get it. He asked Steyn about RW; RW is the plaintiff on every case filed under section 13 since 2003. RW is awarded tax free payments, in the 5 figure sums for the pain and stress he suffered.
I agree with cal2, Steyn needs to be on TV everyday,to expose this racket.
Question: Kate, does Lucy’s real name send of signals to your filter? Twice my posts have not gone through, just very curious. As soon as I changed it to RW, everything was fine. The only other word that I removed is four letters, starts with H and ends in E, which applies to this crime. Weird.
The notion that “freedom of speech is an American concept” — I am quoting Dean Steacy, principal “mediator” (i.e. thought-crime investigator) for the Canadian Human Rights Commission — is proving sadly true in the limited sense that most of the money donated to the various legal defence funds has come, via Internet, from citizens of the USA, outraged upon learning what has happened up here, and acting proactively before the same kind of moral and intellectual garbage spreads across the border. It is a further shame that the decisions of Canada’s human rights commissars have received more publicity in the States than up here.
It may be that it’s just that there are about ten times as many of us, but thank you, Mr. Warren. It takes a big man with a lot of class to write that. And Canadians like Kate and Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant have displayed far more support for freedom of speech than a whole lot of university presidents, administrators, and faculty here in the USA.
Where’s the sanity when a jerk like RW can make a living doing the offended two step right here in Canada with help of the HRC’s, the Commie inspired policing commissions of the Trudeau Charter.
This is turning into a large battle, slowly escalating.
What I am concerned is that all of this will lead to only minor reform.
What I would love to see, in my dreams, is a full rebuke from the SCoC where they say that die to the procedural abuses that the all tribunal rulings are suspect and order amounts returned.
What I am amazed at is that even in Ontario they spend an additional 17 million dollars on the OHRC and we are entering “have not” status.
Apparently we arent in as bad a state as they indicate.
Yes Mary, it does. I’ve added his name to the spam filter to preclude provocateurs who may attempt to make comments designed to enhance his case against me.
“The federally funded CRRF describes its mission as being dedicated to bringing about “a more harmonious Canada that acknowledges its racist past, recognizes the pervasiveness of racism today, and is committed to creating a future in which all Canadians are treated equitably and fairly.”
We’ll I’m sure glad that my tax dollars are being well spent.
In my best Ricky Ricardo:
“LUCY!!!… You got some splainin to do.”
CHRC gives the “I love Lucy Show” a whole new meaning. But then Fidels Cuba doesn’t like a whole lot of free speech either.
Maybe we should just consult Pierre Trudeau on this, while we are channelling Mackenzie King!
Cue WLMR; and is there anyone else from BERLIN, Ontario who would like to chime in?
Cheers
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Frankenstein Battalion
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Knecht Rupprecht Division
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The Lucy cult are getting the notoriety they deserve….and it will only escalate because there just ain’t enough kangaroo courts and time to threaten the millions of voices who are disgusted by self serving zealotry.
Maybe I was lucky and hit that CTV streaming video at a quiet time. It downloaded without a pause.
Steyn was his usual erudite self and I was quite surprised at Mike Duffy’s fair and objective (and really, very supportive) treatment of Mark Steyn.
Steyn’s money line was that the so-called human rights commissions “are an affront to 800 years of Canada’s legal heritage.” No one can pithily summarize as well as does Steyn.
I for one am absolutely opposed to any so-called “hate speech” laws. They are inevitably censorship of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press. As someone said, “One right we don’t have in a democracy is the right not to be offended.” If these freedoms don’t give the right to say or write just about anything short of treason, they don’t mean anything.
As the great American Supreme Court jurist Louis Brandeis wrote in a Supreme Court opinion on a free speech case, “Sunlight is the best disinfectant” against so-called hate speech, not censorship. You defeat an idea with which you disagree with a better idea, not forbidding the expression of the idea.
Thanks for for the answer Kate. So Ontario, spends 17 million, each province has their own HRC, one HRC for Canada. I am afraid to ask but: What is the total amount of taxpayer’s money that goes the HRC’s across this country? We need a total of what is being spent on these “kangaroo courts”. Surely, these governments could find better use for this money.
Mary,
Let me clarify. It isnt a total of 17 million, the 17 million is a an extra this year on top of their existing budget.
They also want to expand their business so they can justify their increased budget.
But with Warren K able to report on the health Dalton’s colon there will be no cutting back on the comission unless there was a major scandal.
Holly crap…….Thanks Stephen.
This is about the right time for some enterprising blogger to initiate a repository for CHRC thug jokes (other than reading exactly what they say).
Here’s a rephrased ditty (you can look up wardriving if you don’t know what it is)
John Henry’s captain came to him
With fifty dollars in his hand,
He laid his hand on his shoulder and said:
“This belongs to a steel driving man.”
Lucy Fur’s captain came to him
With fifty-thousand in his hand,
He laid his hand on his shoulder and said:
“This belongs to a wardriving man.”
When I wrote to the Conservatives concerning support for Keith Martins bill to rescind section 13 of the human rights act I copied several BC MP’s, the Prime Minister, Rob Nicholson, and Jason Kenney. I received only two replies – the PM’s office and Jason Kenney.
While I think that it is important to lobby local politicians it would seem that Jason has been tasked to get action on this issue. Nicholson as usual is missing in action.
Kate, am looking to donate to your legal fund. Want to make sure it goes to the right cause. Any special instructions?
Also will be supporting Ezra Levant, Kathy Shaidle, Mark Steyn, Macleans and the National Post and their cohorts and not the Conservative Party (for now). I want real effort from the Parliamentarians to restore free speech and dismantle the long gun registry as promised. Expect support for Canadas traditional values, not the multiculti spin that has eroded the debate into farce. Thanks Warren K. Seems the Libs and NDP thrive on being divisive. They will pit race against race, men against women, rich against middle class, West against East, French against English, Canadians against Americans, and then claim only they can save us but at a very, very steep price. Used to be a lib but only had the likes of the CBC and CNN for news back then.) That is soooo over. Better get used to it Kinsella and co. Your vacuous accusations and race baiting are without any merit. IMO, metaphorically speaking, Tonya Hardings skates are not very sharp these days.
“At a time when “human rights” commissars such as Barbara Hall can make us deeply ashamed of our country, it is important to remember there are Canadians like Levant, Steyn, McMillan, and many others to make us proud.”
– David Warren
Thanks Morgan Swift … but he missed Jennifer “Don’t do as we do, do what we tell you to do” Lynch. The “QC” is not Quality Control – it represents her “Best Before date” – expired so expect a mass sale soon at the CHRC.
One of her recent tidbits courtesy of Blazing Cat Fur:
Jennifer Lynch is of two minds
Jennifer Lynch Chief Commissioner of the CHRC is of two minds when it comes to staff conduct, alternatively she may simply “give good report” and is a bust as a leader.
Following is an excerpt from a discussion paper she assisted to prepare for the RCMP on the matter of the “Off-Duty” conduct of Police Officers.
Pity she hasn’t insisted these same fine standards apply to her own staff of Hate Crime Clousseaus.
Bona fide occupational requirements and reputational interests respecting police work
In view of the current debates over the proper role of the public police, it is of course particularly difficult to identify a set of bona fide occupational requirements and reputational interests respecting public police work which would be universally accepted. The following are offered, therefore, merely as an illustration of how the regulation and control of off-duty police officer conduct might be made more consistent and principled, recognizing that the occupational requirements suggested may not necessarily be the most appropriate or acceptable ones. Even assuming that they are the right ones, however, the relative weight attached to them could be expected to vary according to the particular type of police work involved in any given case:
(1) An understanding of, and respect for, prevailing notions of peace and good order – necessary for the peace-keeping functions of police work;
(2) A respect for, and obedience to, the laws of the land – necessary for law enforcement functions;
(3) A demonstrated commitment to impartiality and against unacceptable prejudice and discrimination
– necessary for all police work involving contact with or consequences for members of the public;
(4) Demonstrated honesty, trustworthiness, and conduct and deportment worthy of general social respect
– necessary to ensure public confidence in, and hence accessibility to, police as service providers, especially in situations of conflict and crisis,
– also necessary to ensure credibility of police as witnesses in court;
(5) A specified minimum level of physical and mental fitness
– necessary for (and to be determined by) actual physical and mental demands of police work;
(6) Availability for, and fitness for, duty at all times
– necessitated by the nature of peace officer status which is an incident of employment as a police officer.
Tsk Tsk Tsk.
Posted by Blazing Cat Fur
MaryM: “I watched Duffy yesterday and I say he deserves TWO THUMBS UP! Duffy does get it.”
I just watched the video clip from CTV (‘no problem downloading it) and was happily amazed at Mike Duffy’s candid and searching questions to Mark Steyn–yes, he does seem to get it. I was really satisfied by Mark Steyn’s answers. Finally, in the MSM, these dark holes called the Human Rights [sic] Commissions, are having light shone into them for all to see.
But why now? I’m wondering why Mike Duffy, only now, seems to be quietly outraged by RW, aka Lucy, and the racket he and his HRC comrades have been involved in for at least five years.
The facts of this case have been unearthed and well publicized by Mark Steyn, Ezra Levant (and before him, Ted Byfield), Kate, and co. for a long time. Why, just now, are Mike Duffy and CTV becoming concerned about how Canadians’ tax money is being misspent?
I’m curious. If they’d shown any interest in this travesty of “justice” before now, who knows? Maybe Mark Steyn, Maclean’s, Kate, Kathy Shaidle, Ezra Levant, and Free Dominion wouldn’t be being sued by these kangaroo courts.
Simple solution to stop RW. Pass a law making HRC pymts taxable and rectoactive to date of receipt.
Liberals should support this as they have spent weeks trying to find out if and when Brian paid tax on earnings.
Duffy has received a fair amount of flak on this forum before, and often deserved it. But his interview yesterday with Steyn was a wonder to behold. One by one it looks like the mainstream media are coming to the truth on this issue.
And as to the question “why now”? I think that it has always been so. When something is going fundamentally wrong in a society, or a company, or a family, or any structure in which there are many issues and many perspectives, , it takes a while for it to be noticed. It takes a few “canaries in the mine” to identify the issues.
Ezra Levant was our canary in the mine. Luckily, it was the loudest canary in world history.
For whatever reservations I’ve had about Mike Duffy before, I’ve got to say that on this file he really “gets it”. He appeared more outraged than Steyn, probably because Steyn’s been dealing with it for ages so the initial shock is over. I hope that Duffy plays bulldog on this one and holds the politicos feet to the flames.
I also read the article in NP about Kenney’s speech to the victim group du jour. It seems dawn is beginning to lighten the horizon. Let’s hope.
And kudos to Kate and SDA for spearheading the attack. Be sure to keep us appraised of the financial status/requirements of the struggle. Plenty more where the last cheque came from.
I disagree Lori as this whole thing was flying well under all our radar for a long time until we first got note of a special relationship when Don Butler wrote this in the Ottawa Citizen:
“One man’s war on Internet hate
He calls himself more ‘Aryan’ than the hatemongers he chases, but Ottawa lawyer RW has become the bete noire of Canada’s ne0-Nazis, writes Don Butler. (July 07)
This self-serving article was followed up by another one in November 07 trumpeting the success of RW’s Libel suit over Paul Fromm.
Another site FreeDominion became a target back around then (maybe earlier) and that was the start of some collaboration and communication with Marc Lemire which eventually led to an expose of this whole scandel.
Lemire and his legal team scored some stunning successes and each victory only producd more damning facts such as the CHRC staff and Lucy posting as members of Stormfront and then discover these nasty postings and lay 13.1 complaints against Lemire. The March 25/08 hearing was a watershed as many observers including John from SocCon, the CBC and Mark Steyn were there. Steacy contradicited RW and their holiness faded fast.
FreeDominion were threatened with 1 – 13.1 complaint and now 2 Libel suits (at last count) by our mystery man RW.
Other bloggers (including Ezra) got hit with 13.1 complaints by Elmo of the CIC and libel suits by “Lucy” for merely repeating the evident and obvious.
When Steyn and MacLeans also got hit with a 13.1 complaint – that really started the battle which has produced some brillant tactics and results.
It is hard for me to comprehend how fast this has spread but then it was just Lemire and “Stormfront” at the get go and in all fairness – he was not labeled by Worn and friends as a wholesome poster boy. Much and many of the lies have been refuted but they still hang around as a dark cloud.
When others took up the fight like MP Keith Martin – the same labels were given to him but as he is an immigrant of colour and Ezra is Jewish – nothing could stick.
Just my take on the matter.
I don’t think Jason Kenny free lances. And I don’t think what he said was just maid up on the spot.
I hope the PM gives Kenny this file to run with. the guy knows how to close.
Duffy is the only canadian media on air person I have seen to air Steyn. This is the second time he has. And it looks like Duff has finally looked into this issue b/c he looked fired up(for Duffy that is).
Duff is very correct that this will not be touched until the next election has passed.
It would be too easy for the Libs to pull a Kinsella in the media on this one and spin it for points.
Racism in Canada isn’t pervasive. What is pervasive is a group of people intent on protecting their phoney-baloney jobs. If your job depends on Canada being a racist nation, you’ll find racism everywhere.
As for our “racist past”, it will always be racist, no matter how much navel-gazing is done, no matter how many apologies by people who didn’t do it to people it wasn’t done to, so isn’t it time to move on?
MatyM : ” …. The facts of this case have been unearthed and well publicized by Mark Steyn, Ezra Levant (and before him, Ted Byfield), Kate, and co. for a long time. Why, just now, are Mike Duffy and CTV becoming concerned about how Canadians’ tax money is being misspent? …. ”
I doubt if it had not been for the continued discussion in the blogsphere that CTV would have given the HRC issue much publicity , even though it involved Macleans.
The issue of HRC’s is sacrosanct in the eyes of the lib-left media , as the actions of the HRC’s fly in the face of sacred multiculturalism and they only discuss the HRC abuses after being dragged into it kicking and screaming.
It is fascinating to watch how the influence of the MSM continues to bleed away day after day.
Does anyone seriously think that if the Internet had not existed , the various HRC abuses would even be touched by the MSM ?
Kudos to you Kate!
The reason the MSM is finally waking up to this issue is a result of the hard work and defiance you and other freespeechers have exhibited.
The word IS getting out and people are starting to notice.
I have had an ongoing email thread with many of my friends that has generated significant debate and awareness for over a year now. People are starting to see the importance of this issue and are speaking up, contacting their representatives and getting involved.
I have also mobilized and started writing my MLA and MP directing them as to my views and where my “supportive funds” will be directed.
A question; Could this be an effective election platform? Would it be an issue that unifies across party lines? Would it be a point worth pursuing?
LSSK – If only Lemire and Free Dominion had been hit by the HRCs, we would be no further along today than we were a year ago.
I have followed those events extremely closely, day by day practically, and I am among the first 10 people to sign the Free Dominion petition, and was constantly urging people at here at SDA and other blogs to sign it too. I know the history very well.
I agree Lemire did the hard slogging. He was defending himself capably, which he is certainly entitled to do. No doubt this has benefited the free speech movement.
But it is pretty clear to me from even a brief perusal of his various internet connections what he stands for racially and socially. No matter what might have been “refuted” about him, he remains someone whose views will never be acceptable to 99% or more of Canadians, thank goodness, and to whose defense no journalist, no politician, and no major organization can or will come, even as a matter of principle.
I firmly believe that what turned this around was the mainstreaming of the HRC assault. It was the attack on Ezra Levant and soon thereafter Mark Steyn. And their defiant response. Especially Levant.
I also think that this was the most spectacular success that the conservative blogosphere has ever had in Canada, maybe the world. Spreading the word could only be done this way, because the MSM would not hear of it.
But congratulating ourselves is premature. We are very far from victory – we have to continue to be careful because the deck in the media and government bureaucracies is stacked against libertarianism and against “freedom”, and the universities and schools continue to pump out generations of individuals whose bias will forever be against us.
I tried to think what I would take as the first tangible sign of a major victory, and came up with the firing or resignation of Barbara Hall as the best example.
Brian: I agree with you. If the internet and blogs like Kate didn’t exist, the pressure would not be on CTV to cover this story. BUT, the one good thing is Duffy finally gets it. I wonder if he will stay on the story and stay vocal.I have been following this story from the beginning because of Kate. It drives me crazy every time the dollar values start coming out. AND the people of Ontario voted McGuinty back in. Now, they are soon to be a have not province. Wonder why?
It makes me want to move to Ontario, get my feeling hurt and help them spend that extra 17 mil. After all they are looking for business… it……
Brian/Lori,
We are in agreement on this and it is recognized by David Warren that Blogs have become the major source of fast moving information and breaking news for many and is perhaps why Duffy has come out swinging – late but he landed some MSM blows others will have to follow upon:
“Mark Steyn’s website posts, and Kate McMillan’s “Small Dead Animals” blog in Saskatchewan, also belong on the shortlist of essential sources of information from day to day, and my reader may follow their links to more. The whole issue is proving too complex for conventional media reporting, although the National Post in particular has done an impressive job of trying to keep up with it.
At a time when “human rights” commissars such as Barbara Hall can make us deeply ashamed of our country, it is important to remember there are Canadians like Levant, Steyn, McMillan, and many others to make us proud.”
But back to Lemire – it is irrelevant whether politicians, jounalists or the public (we) agree or disagree with his stand any more than we may or not agree with other victim – Bill Walcott (sp?) an anti-gay pastor in Edmonton.
They have a right to their opinions, a freedom to express them and deserve our support as we would expect Canadian support for whatever we hold near and dear.
Steyn with Duffy was terrific. I wonder if CTV realizes, though, that putting Steyn or Ezra on air puts the entrenched GTA Canadianism in peril, because they are fifty times more truthful and blunt and entertaining and articulate and compelling to listen to than any of the usual suspects they put on, most of whom seem to be playing a tired game.
When Ezra was interviewed on CBC radio a couple of years ago, brutally early in the morning for him, it was a watershed event, to me, not so much because he was on air but because the absolute calm fighting brilliance he displayed was so…unCanadian. Instead of beating around the bush and using platitudes and obsequious “we’re all buds” saw-off chuckles, he calmly tapdanced on their heads and threw in a shave-and-a-haircut just for the heck of it. And he was happy the whole time.
It seemed obvious that his interlocutors weren’t used to being put in a position of having to defend their default version of Canadian-inity. I had the feeling that the only possible response they could have to being put in that position would be to either a) quietly utter anti-semitic oaths, or b) work hard in the weeks and months after the interview to ensure that Canada would continue to remain a place where effective conservative voices are kept off the air.
BTW, just in case anyone hasn’t already seen it, check out this video of Ezra on CTV from about a week ago knocking NDP president Ann McGrath’s and Don Boudria’s heads together. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed as hard at an in-studio media clip as I did at approximately 2:42 when Ezra’s full-screen flurry becomes a split screen showing Boudria and McGrath’s reactions. They’d been on a partisan rampage, uttering words that you can tell they didn’t even believe — it was tired rote, and obligato — but then after Ezra has at them for few seconds they’re suddenly looking like a couple of severely chastened kids who just got caught telling a huge falsehood. It’s absolutely hilarious.
Ezra’s destined to be a media star one way or another. Any network that wants to build a bigger audience within the untapped non-GTA Liberal market should have Ezra on regularly — he’s entirely entertaining, and he’s the most powerful antidote to cynicism known to man. I think there’s a vast market out there that wouldn’t miss a show he was on.
AGain, — seriously — do check out Boudria and McGrath at around 2:40 — it’s a “uh oh, we weren’t expecting that” moment to remember.
Whoopsie. Here’s the clip, “Ezra Levant takes down progressives….”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_dXoJdevAQ&eurl=
Rob Nicholson the top cop in this country and our esteemed Prime Minister whom I believed was the most
rational conservative to apply for the the PM job in a very long time are turning out to be more like Inspector Cluso. And Yosemati Sam.
Incompetent bumbling fools who are incapable of managing their own employees the bureaucracy, never mind a whole country.
It occurs to me that I would like to nominate Foghorn Leghorn for PM. I would vote for him.
EBD, many thanks for your intelligent, insightful post(s). I’ve already seen the Ezra TV “special”, but I’m going to watch it again.
David Warren’s also weighing in again–thank God! His ability to distil the issue(s) gives Ezra a run for his money: good thing they’re both on the RIGHT side!
Saw Ezra do that smack down on Boudria and McGrath, EBD, priceless. They weren’t expecting it, Boudria looked like he saw a ghost, both were finished, speechless. He had them by the short and curlies, no possible safe rebuttal.
Don’t worry Jeff, you’ll soon be seeing action from our Justice Minister and the PM, the timing has to be right when dealing with theses issues. The right move in the chess game can’t be rushed.
I just finished (re-)reading P.J. O’Rourke’s classic, “Holidays in Hell”, and came across a phrase that, like so much of his work, is not only well-turned, but eerily prescient.
During a discussion of the atrocious condition of Nicaragua under the Sandanistas, O’Rourke observed that:
“Human rights commissions seem to go forth and multiply in places where a human right hasn’t been seen in years.”*
He wrote that in 1988 – nearly a generation ago. To my mind, it helps define the difference between a country that has a government, to which the people cede finite powers; and a government that has a country, and decides what rights the population thereof may, or may not, enjoy. Put another way, you don’t need human rights commissions in a country where human rights are clearly set forth in founding and inviolable legislation – and where the onus is on the government to prove why a right must be restricted, rather than on the citizen to prove why he or she should be allowed to exercise that right.
How can a “natural” right be subject to “reasonable restrictions”? It would be better had such rights as freedom of speech, thought, assembly and religion been designated “unalienable”. Or is that too “American” a concept, and therefore valueless in the eyes of Canada’s HRC apparatchiks?
*P.J. O’Rourke, Holidays in Hell (New York: Vintage Departures, 1992), p. 209.
They will have to shut the hrc’s down, now that it has been shown they are corrupt.
There is no way that Canadians will accept two justice systems. The hrc’s have been used to financially profit an unscrupulous person, and bolster political entities such as islam here in Canada.
Let’s not forget Dr. Keith Martin in the kudos department. He’s been swimming against the Liberal tide on this one.
Honey Pot writes, “There is no way that Canadians will accept two justice systems.”
Wanna make a bet? Most Canadians don’t even realize what a crock our real court, “justice” system has become via the Charter.
In my experience–and I’ve been aware of the HRCs’ weasel ways for over a decade–most Canadians are just too busy “entertaining themselves to death” (Neil Postman) to give a flying **** about the real issues that are going to drown us.
Honry Pot, I wish you were right about this but, with the greatest respect–it’s a lovely idea–I think you’re not.
Lookout, Canadians didn’t know about the two justice systems. It is just coming out now, a trickle in the liberal msm. The liberal msm is being forced by the Canadian blogsphere to inform every Canadian about the star chambers. Even if they try to sugar coat it, the hrc’s stink of corruption. You have to remember that the media took their orders from the liberals for years, the media was the liberals. The only reason the liberals were called up for stealing all that money, is because of the infighting for power. We would never have known otherwise. The cbc used as the main propoganda tool. There were rumors, but no real stories on how the hrc star chambers operated. Our governments will be forced, by the Canadian people, to dismantle them. It will be an election issue for sure.
Give credit where credit is due – Duffy on CTV giving Mark Steyn air time to disclose the dirty workings of the Ontario and Alberta HRC’s.
But while Duffy “gets it” regarding HRC’s underhanded tactics, it’s a long way from the rest of the Canadian MSM to “get it”.
And besides I don’t fully trust Duffy in this matter, let’s face it, he can suck up to the
most corrupt servile political information peddlers in a nanosecond, while on air.
No Bill O’Reiily he.
One of the last time I heard a Canadian mention Mark Steyn on TV was Ken Rockburn with a derisive tone on CPAC some while ago.
So much for Canadian MSM and Mark Steyn.
As far as Connie and Mark Fournier are concerned they would, I suspect, still be in the wilderness on the issue of legal matters involving the HRC and the RW’s , ‘Jadwrrs’, Lucy’s, if not for the overreach of the HRC’s to Levant, Steyn,and law suits for Shaidle, SDA and Kay of the NatPost.
The rest of MSM journalists are silenced lambs.
Will they wake up?
I agree, this would never be in the limelight if not for the internet blogosphere, Mike Duffy notwithstanding.
Brenda Martin for sure, Mark and Connie Fournier vs RW, not likely.
Free speech advocacy.
Labeling critics of Israel “antisemites”.
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EBD – I love your post – you made me laugh again by reiterating that hilarious scene on CTV with Ezra, Boudria and Anne (NDP gal)!
I share your opinion of our Prime Minister lookout, the Prime Minister is waiting for a reason. I have watched Stephen Harper with pride and trust ever since he was first elected into the House of Commons (in 1983). I have never had any reason not to trust the Prime Minister; Stephen Harper is true blue, IMO. He is the mind behind what Preston Manning accomplished in the Reform Party, IMO. Like Winston Churchill, he knows his enemies….sometimes the worst enemy of an idea or a person poses as a best friend. Braveheart is a true story….keep that in mind Jeff.
David Warren has once again NOT disappointed me – he addressed the problem of ‘oil for $$’ and the consequences of the fanatical anti smoking crowd before it was even passing most people’s radar. He has been in the same league as Ezra, Mark Steyn, Ted Byfield and Kate for years. David Warren spoke up for Liberty in the Dark Days of Puffin rule when most of the population didn’t even remember when Canadians could be anything but PC in public. The Conservatives have given this nation free air to breath – even though it is a minority government – I felt as though I had just been released from a dark, filthy gulag the day the Conservatives won the last election. It was a great feeling that I will not soon forget. People like Mark, Ezra, David, the Byfields, Angry in the Great White North, The Captain at Captains Quarters, Conrade Black, Dave Rutherford, Candis Mclean…Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, Stockwell Day, Jason Kenny, Pierre Poileve, Gerry Ritz, Gerry Britkritz (wrong spelling – the MP who exposed the Gun control scam), Shiela Fraser….made this all possible because they spoke up for us!
As for Mike Duffy – he almost died a little while ago – I think he had a ‘wake-up’ call and is man enough to realize that he has been making a big mistake supporting overtly and through omission the nasty turn Canada took under the foul days of corrupt Puffin rule. I hope, for Duffy’s soul’s sake, that what we are seeing is not a ‘set-up’ for something else foul smelling and evil. Duffy did ‘bleed’ the blubbering Brenda M. story for days so he is not home free in my books- yet.
Oray for the poor little guys….
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The prime cause for worry”
scientists will study the mammal in depth to figure out how they evolved and how to keep them around.
Yup. Bring scietists (not all) but most in and they will declare an emergency,which the gubbermint will want to help with. Poor little guy is history.
I agree Jema54, that PM Harper probably understands this issue and feels as we do, but has not addressed it directly because it has started to be addressed fairly successfully without the need for him to use up any political capital or take any risk on it. I believe when the time is right, or when it’s truly necessary, he’ll come in in the appropriate manner.
Our number one goal, in the coming years, is to maintain the conservative hold on power so as to try to gradually undo the immense damage that has been done by a decade or more or Liberal appointments and policies.
One can assume that Jason Kenney speaks for the PM I would hope, and considering the political climate and the realities, his words as discussed in this topic were quite remarkable and significant.
Regardless, as conservatives and libertarians, we should not be looking for politicians to do our work. We need to do it ourselves, as has been done so successfully in the past few months.
It is going to made an election issue. It will separate the men from the boys, or the right from the never right.
it seems that jason kenney’s name is now on the list of active individuals against the “underminers”.
for months the questions have been – where is the conservative party on this fundamental issue of freedom of speech and when will they speak up?
now we have it. the conservatives have officially fired their first warning shot across the bow of those who would suppress charter rights in the name of “an improved version”. this is late to the game by this citizen’s standards but it will still be a good day to remember. hats off to mr. kenney!