“There is no right not to be offended”

Pete Vere, Sootoday.com;

The MP wasn’t Prime Minister Stephen Harper, or even Conservative. Despite the current high-profile cases against Mark Steyn, Ezra Levant and Alphonse de Valk, the government has been silent.
No, taking the lead in defense of our traditional freedoms was Liberal MP Dr. Keith Martin, a visible minority with a strong record of promoting human rights. It’s too bad he’s also a minority among MPs when it comes to defending the fundamental right to free expression. Dr. Martin has introduced a private member’s motion to repeal the section of the Canadian Human Rights Act that is allowing a quasi-judicial government agency to censor not only the media, but the average Canadian.
“This is a question of freedom of speech,” Dr. Martin said. “As a citizen of a free country, I am deeply concerned and disturbed by the fact that the bar of freedom of speech has been moved, quite significantly, in a way that is a serious violation in a serious democracy. People fought through two world wars to give us freedom of speech.”

Audio at the link.
Contrast this with the yellow journalism on display in this Canadian Press item. (Contact info)
The email for the Senior Supervising Editor Patti Tasko appears to be ptasko@cp.org

51 Replies to ““There is no right not to be offended””

  1. oh please oh please oh please Ezra, do PISS CHRIST next!!!! It’s way funnier than those piss-ant Muslim comics!!!

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