Ezra Levant’s analysis of the Lemire vs Warman hearing must be read in its entirety. It’s difficult to exerpt, but I’ve chosen a couple of points as teasers;
The Tribunal’s decision to nix transcripts is transparently biased: the one day that the hunters became the hunted — where the CHRC itself was being grilled — was the one day that accurate, typed, searchable transcripts were omitted. Try to “search” an eight-hour audio recording for a key word, as opposed to searching a written transcript. Try to hear words that are spoken quietly; try to learn the spelling of unusual names of words; try to skip to important matters and avoid others. It’s yet another irregularity in a system where arbitrariness and capriciousness have replaced the rule of law.
That’s offensive to anyone, like me, who cares about the openness of our legal system. But it’s more than just offensive — it’s unfair to any defendant who will now not be able to rely on such transcripts for his appeal when he’s convicted.
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It gets worse. After Goldberg’s examintion last year, he disclosed a further 300 pages of documents. That might mean nothing to non-lawyers, but it’s very important, and it goes to the unlawful, unprofessional, abusive manner in which the CHRC conducts itself. Goldberg was subpoenaed, as were his documents. Subpoenas are not invitations; they carry the weight of the law with them. They can be appealled, of course, if the recipient of a subpoena thinks they’re improper. At least that’s what a law-abiding agency would do. But not the CHRC. They waited until after Goldberg’s examination to disclose the 300 pages. And, wouldn’t you know it, Goldberg was exempted from answering questions about those pages, too. Bogus objections and defiance of disclosure obligations: if that happened in a real court, the judge would blow his stack, order the offending party to comply, assess costs against the offending party, and censure the lawyers, too. But of course, this isn’t a real court.
Exceedingly well written, as usual, but more importantly, its exceedingly well explained for the lay reader. And it’s one of those pieces that I’d ask you copy, print and forward to acquaintances and family to make them aware of what is going on on their dollar, and in their name. It’s particularly important if you have family in the legal profession proper. My suspicion is that most have little knowledge of the investigative procedures and lack of procedural integrity of these commissions and their investigators.
And the time may be right;
Last night, one minister’s aide reported that his office alone had received, in the last month, 40 letters about human rights commissions, and 0 letters about the Chuck Cadman matter and 0 letters about the Obama/NAFTA leak, for comparison.
Ezra’s post includes contact numbers where you can turn up the heat.
But that doesn’t concern you, because you don’t surf Stormfront.
Well, that depends on where you live.
Let’s wander a block down the street from the CHRC office, to the apartment of private citizen Nelly Hechme. How does she figure in the investigation of hate-inciting speech on the internet? She doesn’t – her wireless internet connection does.
During later testimony by Dean Steacy, he testified to having no knowledge of who Nelly Hechme was or how that person got access to the “Jadewarr” account on Stormfront. Just what on earth was going on. The IP address and everything matched. What is going on here?
Until, the National Post’s Joe Brean called Nelly Hechme and asked what she knew about this. The poor Nelly was shocked. I am sure it’s a pretty odd day when the National Post calls and asks if your a government agent posting racist messages on the Stormfront website, especially when you have no idea what Stormfront even is.
That’s right. Do you access the internet on wireless connection? Well, your government thought protectors may be borrowing your internet identity to play-act as white supremacists on foreign internet forums – if you’re lucky.
Because if they can play-act as “Jadewarr, jew-hater”, they can play-act as “Jadewarr, child pornographer”, or “Jadewarr, bridge blower”. He may be a doughy little ex-union boss when he arrives at the office, but when the door closes behind him, he tears off that suit and bursts forth as Jadewarr! Hate Fighter! charging that keyboard stallion into the darkest of places, armed with the sword of Canadian law enforcement, and holding you up as his shield.
Phantom I like your passion which I hope you will direct it at those that can change the system at the click of a mouse. The reality of politics in Canada is that once MP’s have been elected and counted then any influence they might exert on those in power disappears. The power in Canada resides in the office of the Prime Minister (PMO). He has proven resistant to the pleas of those that got him to where he is today. His looks at everything as a black eye or feather in his cap and he is giving us the impression that doing something about the CHRC will give him a black eye. In any event, direct your missives at him, nobody else counts.
[quote]The only facts are that the Ip address belonged at that date to the woman…the woman has denied any knoweldge but said she had an unprotected wireless router. After that it is all speculation.[/quote]
Stephen,
Also the speculation that the HRC may have had an inside person at the phone Company would explain more. The lady spoke to a reporter, not the police. I don’t believe in happen chance.
The RCMP & CSIS testified in the Air India inquiry that they NEVER provide case files,
or copies without a formal (Written) request. How does the HRC get its information? Do they have a table at that special restaurant (Franks) in Montreal.
If the HRC is operating as a Vigilante group, those “Special” investigative “Tools” available to law enforcement are been abused.
This issue needs to be investigated by the RCMP!
Great posts. This thread should be required reading for all of our MPs and anyone at all interested in Canadians’ democratic rights and freedoms…
I can’t help but think and be grateful for the voices from the past–to the present–who have been speaking out on the loss of our freedoms for many years and have been treated like pariahs by the MSM and, therefore, all Canadians who get their info ONLY from the MSM (about 80%, I understand).
I’m talking about Ted Byfield, former editor of The Alberta Report and The Report, which segued into Ezra Levant’s Western Report, and Gwen Landolt, past president and one of the founding members of REAL Women (Realistic, Equal, and Active for Life).
Both have blown the whistle on these leftie groups and their totalitarian ways and both have been savaged by the MSM for years–I wonder why?
It behooves Canadians who are scandalized by the skullduggery of the HRCs and the Steacys and Warman’s of our galaxy, to be grateful to Mr. Byfield and Mrs. Landolt–and to perhaps say a soft “sorry, ‘didn’t know, ‘didn’t try to find out”–who have been watchdogs and whistleblowers of these kinds of tribunals and Star Chambers when the rest of us were resting on our laurels.
They have taken the full brunt of scorn and ridicule by our intrepid investigative reporters in the MSM (excluding writers like David Frum, Danielle Crittendon, David Warren, etc.) while far too many Canadians were content to also heap opprobrium on them. If they’d been listened to twenty years ago, the HRCs would never have been able to flourish as they have.
‘Something to think about. These threats to our freedoms are not new to the Canadian scene.
Dawg and Kinsella: Two bloated ego’s restricted by ideological manacles so tight they are forced to argue 2+2=5.
So what do you suggest James, armed insurrection? Viva la Revolucion? Not in my country.
Get busy, dig in and start making those calls, writing those letters. The PM ain’t the PM without his posse. You get a bunch of politicians thinking they are going to lose their seats, and action will follow as the day follows the night.
You might also consider the possibility, faint though it may seem, that your MP will go kick asses and take names on this CHRC issue because it is the right thing to do. Because as a Canadian this secret court bullsh1t offends them.
Not everybody in the world is a crooked, gutter dwelling POS. That’s why we vote Conservative.
batb, I really appreciate your tip of the hat to Ted Byfield and Gwen Landolt, two iconoclastic and courageous giants in this country, who have been given midget status by the moral pygmies that comprise Canada’s MSM and other elites—educational, religious, judicial, governmental, etc.
Indeed, if Canadians had heeded Ted’s and Gwen’s realistic and well documented warnings about where the Charter was taking us, maybe we’d have actually done something to avoid the morass in which we now find ourselves. (But I doubt it, because . . .)
Both Ted and Gwen are committed Christians. I’m a committed Christian in the public school system. While my antennae have been quivering for decades at the groupthink and HRC type sanctions for teacher dissenters, my more secular colleagues, which is most of them, appear to simply march to the drummer they hear: they don’t always like the beat, but they move along in step, without too much thought—certainly, no talking back.
It is my very firm belief that the loss of confidence in our Judeo-Christian heritage—one does not need to be a church goer to respect and support the virtues we inherited via Greece, Jerusalem, and Rome—has seriously undermined our ability to discern, and to think and act clearly and decisively in order to preserve our civilization.
Relativism and multiculturalism were discerned as huge dangers by people like Ted, Gwen, and other committed Christians, who fought the Charter tooth and nail, decades ago. Of course, it is no surprise that, among the victims of Canada’s HRCs, there happen to be a number of orthodox Christians. (Even though the dogmas and actions of other religious persons are far more dangerous and altogether outside Charter values.)
The fact that so many Canadians have given up the very idea of moral imperatives and personal responsibility and have allowed the hand of the state, always an iron fist in a velvet glove, to direct the traffic portends disaster. (Gwen, Ted, and others, thoroughly ignored and ridiculed by “those that count” have been proven about 100% right.)
Perhaps it’s a very good thing that disaster is now, finally, openly assailing us. Maybe now, finally, we’ll pay attention and fight back. But, with what? We’re a pretty flabby conglomeration these days and most Canadians seem as uninformed as ever. I hope the cojones we need to kick butt come from somewhere in order to take us through the very real trials and tribulations that can no longer be avoided. Kyrie eleison.
I wonder, what stories do those thugs at HRC actually tell their grandchildren?
If I may dwell into fantasy world for a moment, here’s how I see it:
– And then we realized, grandson, that if we don’t stop the transcripts, there may be unwanted complications. You know, the kind of complications every bureaucrat is afraid of, like pulled funding or even cancellation of the show (HRC) altogether.
– And what did you do, granpa?
– What I did was what I did, I told the stenographer to take a day off and that was it. Clever, eh?
Plague on their both homes! It is disgusting to even think of them.
Well-said, lookout.
We’ve sold ourselves down the river by our acquiescence to political-let’s-get-rid-of-our-own-cultural-faith-heritage-correctness.
Now, we’re reaping the Maelstrom–and we’re surprised?