Getting the warm fuzzies yet?
It is the complaints that are not made that give her more concern.
“I would say that for a province as large and as diverse as Ontario, to have 2,500 formal complaints a year, that that’s a very low level,” the activist lawyer and former mayor of Toronto said. In the long term she would like to see human rights complaints decrease, but in the interim they “may have to spike.”
“Barbara Hall is a notoriously stupid woman, but that doesn’t make the explicit import of her words any less disturbing: that she intends for the OHRC to manufacture, in-house, human rights complaints…”
Macleans fires back – “Protest while you still can.”
It appears that the ultimate solution to this sorry situation is for the Supreme Court of Canada to reconsider its support of Section 13(1) in light of all that has transpired since 1990. The fears of the dissenters have come true, and then some. Canada needs an unambiguous reaffirmation of the right to freedom of expression, and assurance that reasonable limits on free speech are in fact reasonable.
In the meantime, Parliament should act to abolish Section 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act on the grounds that it applies a hopelessly vague and subjective limit on freedom of expression. That freedom, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly acknowledged, is absolutely fundamental to a healthy democracy. The system of human rights star chambers has wandered far beyond the “reasonable limits” envisioned by Parliament and the Charter, and no amount of tinkering will do. Liberal MP Keith Martin recently tabled a motion to eliminate Section 13(1) from the Canadian Human Rights Act. That motion needs to be acted upon through legislation. The sooner the better.
The film industry is worried that they may not receive money to support their efforts but where were they when the Human Rights Commissions attacked freedom of speech?…
Ask the Scold!
And as always, there’s much more at Free Mark Steyn, including cool tshirts!
The media in general are being critical of the Conservative’s attempt to keep some journalists out of their briefing on the search warrant. The filming of someone (Boag?) being refused entry is awkward. Having said that any party has a right to invite whomever they like for advance notice on something. Didn’t the CBC get “advance notice” from the Liberals about the raid? The problem is when Conservatives do the same thing, there are always criticisms and accusations of secrecy. I think that the Conservatives just can’t win with the media — some will be fair, but those are the ones that would be fair anyway. CBC will continue to slam Conservatives at every opportunity. I woudn’t invite them either if I had an announcement to make — but as a rule, the Conservatives should probably play along with them — rather than giving the CBC (and other hostile media) another excuse to undermine them.
media darling anyone?
robert latimer was tried in 1974 for raping a 15 yr old but got off on a technicality:
3w.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1997/nov/97112801.html
so, who is it again you should be putting behind bars? rapists and murderers? latimer on both counts !!!
whine whine whining from the left AND right.
Ben Stein Exposes Richard Dawkins
By Dinesh D’Souza
Richard Dawkins makes in his response to Ben Stein. Perhaps, he notes, life was delivered to our planet by highly-evolved aliens. Let’s call this the “ET” explanation.
Stein brilliantly responds that he had no idea Richard Dawkins believes in intelligent design! And indeed Dawkins does seem to be saying that alien intelligence is responsible for life arriving on earth
The rest at:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DineshDSouza/2008/04/21/ben_stein_exposes_richard_dawkins
Ben Stiens movie trailer: Expelled
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV8sN1UngFY
ET – Even the CBC surprised me with speed which an election spending dispute becomes well, Gomery all over again. (Oh and, well, worse, ’cause, they were so against corruption and now .. they’re JUST as bad).
Right, Tories passing envelopes of non-taxpayers dollars from one accountant to another (ie-fully documented). Libs might be desperate enough to pull the plug over this one. Well fine. CBC is certainly encouraging Grits to go. For once, I agree with them.
ET, not only is the public sector all unionized, but all under the yoke of utopian “Equity Policies”, with all kinds of nasty ways to keep the proles in line.
What a mess.