CASINO! YES! It would make a GREAT casino! And somebody else said outdoor waterslide and toboggan run.

Now we're talking visitors!

Waste of money. Who thought this was a good idea?

I go to museums to see interesting things such as ancient artifacts and dinosaur bones. If I want an orgy of white liberal guilt I'd watch reruns of CBC documentaries.

So, what happens if you're Jewish and Ukrainian? A spirited discussion with yourself?

Was just in the 'peg. What a weird looking building it is to start with.

They need a mock display out front with a CHRC tribunal overlooking some cowering white men sprawling and begging in chains on the ground. Above a caption will read “These white men are accused of thinking bad thoughts of Muslims and black people, they will be sentenced to die in the name of Canadian human rights, truth is not a defence”.

It's a grotesquely unnatural structure sitting prominently at the river's edge next to a bridge. If there is ever a war here, pilots will target it thinking it's some evil overlord's headquarters.

But to Kay's third point.. that nobody will visit it. Disagreed becaues I'm guessing that public school kids from all around North America and perhaps overseas will be cycled through the place in perpetuity. The engineers of this scheme are no babes in the woods. After the public is forced to pay its construction costs, the public is forever forced to pay for having their children indoctrinated there.

Because it is Christmas and I just went to confession, I will only say this about a museum nobody wants (and innocent school children will be forced to visit yearly).the family behind this project had a father who was a good corporate citizen and a decent guy- the kids, not so much.

Can't think of the last time I stopped over in Winnipeg.

Well, speaking of school children, for them to be taken to those museums still requires parental consent, or it should as with any other field trip. Parents are within their rights to withdraw that consent.

Winnipeg is a depressed windy city. Just arriving from the airport and stuffing myself into a Toyota Prius electromobile was enough of a downer, but the main road leading from the airport is like a back alley service road. Narrow, bumpy and bland buildings.

Then they got this restaurant on a foot bridge, but you have to park far away and walking in the blistry wind to get to it. Nothing to write home about either. Then walking back you see a bunch of building cranes, oh wait just one, but a bunch of peaks, no wait it's artifical mini mountain peaks in the middle of flat landscape; no some sort of alien spaceship has landed; no, ok, I give up. Oh it is a museum. Ok. Of what, ice peaks? Oh it is the museum of Human Rights, i guess the iceberg fractured look indicates it isn't going so well with them.

A monument to white guilt by the HRC people, paid by you, to vilify you.
A monument to Pseudo-communism, of the Trudeau babblers.

Said it before - a museum is where you go to look at things that aren't used any more.

So a human rights museum?......

Funny that - A human rights museum in a country that refuses to protect the property rights of its citizens.

How does one properly do a depiction of a kangaroo court where Canadian human rights are administered. I hope they remember to portray Canadians as the most hateful, hurtful, racists possible and full of self loathing for their despicable deeds. I thoroughly enjoy the image put forth by the Lib/Commies.

Is our abuse of natives going to be accompanied by a $90 million cheque? Are we going to depict the thief, kidnapper, and murderer, Louis Riel, as a civil rights hero? After all he only killed white people.

The whole thing is an exercise in stupid. I've seen dozens of museums from little to big, but why would anyone go there?

What? - no statues of Steyn and Levant to welcome you?

They've already spent $200 million on construction, with no end in sight. On a museum? That's a scam.

So, what happens if you're Jewish and Ukrainian? A spirited discussion with yourself?

Send them back to Germany. The Nazis didn't kill John Demjanjuk so they brought him back to try him for listening to their orders 70 years ago.

Ms Kate,

if this headline is of your doing, you are getting better by the day.

The headline describes in perfection the communist, socialist/fascist and other totalitarian, dictatorial ideologies, modus operandi.

That funny Jonathan Kay thinks it will turn into a convention centre or a casino? I hope he keeps writing stuff like that; that way he and his readers will have no idea of its ultimate destiny, until it arrives, will they, Ahmed, my brother!

This place may never open up. Harper says no more money, so he is obviously a anti-semite and will probably hear from the CHRC, or the gay rights lobby, or the anti bullying crowd , or Libby Davis or The assembly of first nations, or the displaced Japanese of WW2 or the Doukobors or every other group trying for a office in the place. If the place ever does open, I'm sure Winnipeg will be strongly represented by everyone who has ever had their feelings hurt. A "must see" if you are in a good mood and want to get back to feeling normal. Everything in there was your fault. Pay up you bastards. Paypal accepted.

the thing that hurts the most is the tap is flush with OUR money...and mayor katz and premier selinger can't seem to turn it off

right...so the next time I file my tax return I'll check "no" on the human rights museum bullshit line.
Fully 1/3 of my pay is deducted every single payday. This is not how I want my money spent

The two most important human rights are the right to keep and bear arms and the right to freedom of speech (property rights flow from the right to be armed). I predict that a financially successful museum would have most of it's space devoted to the development of firearms and how industry created effective and inexpensive guns that every free citizen could afford. Ukrainian and Jewish groups would likely agree on incorporation of exhibits on the role of the Ukrainian UPA in fighting oppression from both the Nazi's and Communists and the battle of the Warsaw ghetto. If I was Jewish, I'd play down the passive, sheeple like behavior of people going to extermination camps and accentuate Israel's victories in 1967 and 1973 over islamofascists as well as positive Jewish organizations such as JPFO. There could be a large NRA section where one could find out more about the history of the NRA and how it has helped preserve human rights in the US.

The freedom of speech section would feature a large number of computers with live links to various blogs that exemplify freedom of speech and SDA and WUWT would be given prominent positions.

Now that's a museum I would contribute money to and visit but the current POS is something that I'm very annoyed at having my tax dollars going to and also something that I'm guaranteed not to visit during my lifetime (Winnipeg is not in the top 10 list of my vacation destinations).

Loki - wonderful idea

Up there with every dictatorship in the world calling itself a democratic republic are human rights commissions that excel in removing human rights.

Loki - wonderful idea

Up there with every dictatorship in the world calling itself a democratic republic are human rights commissions that excel in removing human rights.

A different post on CMHR on Black Rod blog has the following paragraph, which nails it.

"The real purpose of the CMHR is to serve as a left-wing think tank that will attack conservative principles and policies under the cloak of non-partisan concern for human rights."

Pretty much says it all.

This building requires a new purpose. Rename it the "Canadian Museum of Wasteful Government Spending." There will be no need to continue construction nor waste further funds on operation. The incomplete monolith will speak for itself.