“It’s time for a new batch of letters – this time asking the MPs how much they would appreciate having their communications monitored by an HRC bureaucrat with an unknown and undisclosed political bias. How comfortable would they feel, knowing that it’s not just the potentially hateful comments of their constituents they need to worry about, but the potential that their responses will be monitored – and potentially – available to their opposing members.”
Or we could dredge up some of each politician’s former speeches for “offensive” material (no matter how trivial) and launch HRC complaints against them until they cry uncle and scrap the damn things like they ought to do.
Lately, as I have reflected on this whole HRC business, I have come to think that this really is the most serious threat that we in Canada (and the western world at large) have ever faced.
I’m honestly not trying to be overly-dramatic. But seriously: Can anyone think of anything we have ever faced that posed a more direct threat to our society and its foundation? Something that was more threatening to the very core of who we are and what civilization has stood for since the time of the Magna Carta?
Yes, of course, bloody conflicts such as the world wars were more dramatic and costly in terms of human lives and resources. But I’m not aware of any war in recent history where the aggressor was interested in actually exercising control over the very thoughts of the population.
On Remembrance Day, we say that our soldiers fought to “keep us free” and “preserve our way of life.” But I’m pretty sure that neither the Kaiser nor Hitler never really contemplated assaulting our way of life the way that these speech/thought-control folks at the HRC do.
I would ask my fellow Canadians: If this is not worth fighting for, then what exactly is?
Perhaps we have attained John Lennon’s dream: Nothing left to kill or die for.
Bryceman-agreed.
I have just completed a response to Irving Gerstein after receiving yet another donation request from the CPC. Being a member of the party and a past donor I advised him of my refusal to
donate any more funds until the government takes the steps to at least place a moratorium on all Sect. 13 complaints until a thorough review is completed.
You rightly pointed out that freedom of speech has been around since the Magna Carta and is one of the pillars of a free and democratic society.
I too consider this the greatest threat to face
us in a long time.
I would like to hear what others think we should do to address this abomination now.
Bryceman-agreed.
I have just completed a response to Irving Gerstein after receiving yet another donation request from the CPC. Being a member of the party and a past donor I advised him of my refusal to
donate any more funds until the government takes the steps to at least place a moratorium on all Sect. 13 complaints until a thorough review is completed.
You rightly pointed out that freedom of speech has been around since the Magna Carta and is one of the pillars of a free and democratic society.
I too consider this the greatest threat to face
us in a long time.
I would like to hear what others think we should do to address this abomination now.
Sorry for the double post. Things go wonky somethimes.
Bryceman & Malcolm Cross:
HRCs make it look like the Geheime Staats Polizei (Gestapo) and KGB (Kind Good Boys) were really a kindergarten teddy bear picnic.
These clowns actually want to force people to mouth opinions they do not actually espouse.
The Gestapo and KGB at least were honest; they would shoot you if you disagreed!!
But as Greg Weston noted back in 2005:
You know that Paul Martin and his Liberal government have reached a true ethical milestone when even the Hells Angels are holding their noses at the stench of the Adscam fiasco.
The biker gang’s Toronto chapter is so peeved at the PM that it has adorned its website with a doctored photo of Martin, decked out in a bandanna, over the caption: “Pirate of Canada.”
What got the bikers’ leathers in a twist was Martin’s odd statement that the federal Liberals should not be tarnished by the “activities of a very small few who may have colluded against the party.”
“The bikers fumed to us by e-mail yesterday, saying: “The government thinks it’s fine to blame every Hells Angel for the actions of a few … What a country this used to be. What a hypocritical pile of #&$* it is becoming.”
The Liberals losing the Hells Angels vote fit perfectly into a truly wacky week of Adscam in which parliamentary politics is verging on the theatre of the absurd.”
We are still in the LIEberal theatre of the absurd!! Even the Hell’s Angels are HARPERING!
But then when you get HRCs trying to get Bishops and pastors to espouse the homosexual agenda you are somewhere in the 7th/8th level of Hades in Dante’s Divine Comedy.
HELLuva country wouldn’t you say?
The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
Inferno, Canto III
Through me you enter the woeful city,
Through me you enter eternal grief,
Through me you enter among the lost.
JUSTICE moved my HIGH MAKER:
The DIVINE POWER made me,
The SUPREME WISDOM, and the PRIMAL LOVE.
Before me nothing was created
If not eternal, and eternal I endure.
Abandon every hope, you who enter.
“Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate”, or “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”
We should perhaps enlist the help of the Devil’s Advocate as even he is marveling at the absolute stupidity of these disorders.
Peace, Order and Good Government all brought to you by the disciples of Chaos.
Last time I checked the coat of arms, our motto was A Mari usque ad Mare (“From Sea to Sea”), Canada’s motto, was derived from Psalm 72:8, which reads in Latin “Et dominabitur a mari usque ad mare, et a flumine usque ad terminos terrae,” and in the King James version, “He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.”
It appears PM Paul Martin’s …”come HELL or HIGHWATER” statements have taken on new meaning.
I think every red blooded Canadian should be willing to give HELL a makeover.
Fire. Them. All.
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht,Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von
Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Bryceman, I think you nailed it. The fact that the HRCs are not accountable and can prosecute at their pleasure while the defendant is guilty until proven otherwise, is scary. Actually, IF someone did manage to be found not guilty of Sect. 13, they still are “punished” by having to incur expenses that could very well bankrupt them along with forever tarnishing their reputations. Heck, they render verdicts even when they don’t have a case. One would have a better chance pleading their case to Jabba the Hutt.
This is the “slippery slope” everyone is talking about.
I have communicated the importance of freedom of speech to my MP. I told him this is more important than anything else. Afghanistan, gun control, CWB, adscam, climate change (what a farce), health care, you name it. We have to “smother” all MP’s of every party with email, regular mail, telephone calls, whatever means one can think of to get their attention. This HRC crap has to be stopped.
It is actually worse than you think. We are much further down the road in terms of transforming public services to arrive at prescribed “social outcomes” thanks to HRC rulings.
Parents in BC are not allowed to shield their own children from lessons specifically designed to teach the moral normalization of “alternative lifestyles”. There has been no public release (as far as I know) of the materials involved, so we have no idea of what the kids are exposed to.
Failure to put your children in school is a criminal offense, and moral “training” which undermines essential beliefs of Judeo-Christian values is now part of the mandatory requirements for every child in BC.
This is not a conspiracy theory, it is on the public record, confirmed yesterday in an article in the Vancouver Sun quoting representatives of the government.
See this link.
Starting today in Beautiful BC the cops can pull you over and if they think you have been smoking pot, they can demand that you piss in a bottle while they watch to make sure it’s your piss.
Anyone who pays attention knows that THC remains in your system for up to a month or more. So if you smoked pot in the last month, you could get a 1000.00 fine and a criminal record.
Is this a f**king police state or what?
I uncertain how they intend to have women piss in a bottle or if they get to watch.
This country is very very sick and no end in sight.
Here is the measuring stick to decide the worth and dangers of the ABHRC.
Consider the papers on the evils of Islamic intent by renown scholar and statesman Sir Winston Churchill.
If the ABHRC finds fault with Steyn, Ezra and MCleans, then their logic would suggest both hanging and firing squad for Sir Winston.
How long is this madness going to continue?= TG
Bryceman how right you are. So where is the public outrage across Canada? I find this very concerning for what the future holds in store. One does not need a university education to understand that without freedom of expression and of the press there can be no free democracy.
What makes the threat from the HRCs so insidious is their ability to cloak their villainy with the guise of “good intentions”.
George Orwell was off by 24 years, but “Big Brother”
is watching out for you, and your well being.
One of the Muslim ‘sock puppets’ was on television the other day, arguing that we have Freedom of THOUGHT. He asserted, in all sincerity, that we are free to THINK anything we want to (ahh, the kindness). However, we, according to him, can’t say it.
And a great silence stretched over the land..
Today, I think that the tipping point has been reached.
MPs cannot ignore this any longer or they will become targets.
Then again, some aren`t so smart.
Below the 49th, we have the ACLU. Above, there is the HRC. My mother always said the Boomers would take the country to hell in a handbasket. The reality is we took two.
Send letters, emails and phone calls to your MP (I can’t because the lickspittle that lied his way into office and got kicked out of the Liebral party, still collects a paycheck for representing Powell River), to the Justice Minister and to the PM.
Flood them with mail and they’ll wake up to the reality of the garbage that walks in Canada.
Angry Brew
My view from the cheap seats shows me Canadians have grown up (2 or 3 generations) with the thinking that gov’t knows/does everything. Hey, it’s the “that’s why we voted for them, damn it!” type of mentality. Most Canadians are completely out of the loop with regards to anything further than “what’s in it for me”. If YOU haven’t been approached or harassed by the HRC, “what’s the big?” deal seems to be the reaction. Everyone’s going f***ing ga ga over supposed global warming and we’ve got a real threat happening and Canadians shrug. Pitiful.
The HRC’s, federal and provincial, should be abolished, there is no place for these kinds of quasi-judicial bodies in a western democracy.
And just who was PM at the time this BS was foisted on the Canadian public? A Klepto-Communistic Crook by the name of Trudeau, that’s who.
I recently sent an email to Rob Nicholson, Minister of Justice and AG for Canada. The email was considered to be a Ministerial enquiry so the
Ministerial Correspondence unit got involved.
As a former employee of Her Majesty’s Government, I knew that the Ministerial Correspondence unit was obligated to reply within 48 hours. And reply they did.
What I found interesting in their reply was the fact that the Justice Dept. had recently granted aboriginals the right to file HR complaints.
BUT, further on in the letter, Nicholson claims that the HRC’s operate at arms-length from the Government so their input is somewhat restricted.
My point is, if they can legislate Indians being covered by this, why can’t they influence the Section 13 provision.
If anyone is interested, I can post the reply from Nicholson.
My suggestion is this. Email the Minister and express your feelings. A reply is required within 48 hours. Give the Ministerial Correspondence Unit
something to do. Believe me, this will cause a whole bunch of havoc amoungst the rank and file and will send a message to the Ministry that they better start paying attention to us.
Yaknow if someone was to set up a site much like this one:
http://www.copyrightforcanadians.ca/
That would let people send mail to their MPs quickly and easily I think you’d see a lot more people do just that.
I used that form to sent the message to my MP about the Canadian DCMA and was pleased to get quite a candid reply. This would be a good thing to do for the cause of killing the HRC’s. You wanna mobilize the masses? Here’s how to start.
Just a thought…
The total surveillance society, a fully “tamed” puppet media and politically sanitized speech enforcement…the ultimate dream of these anti-democratic, Pathocrats.
A return to Stalinist soviet political speech control, cultural Marxism….where political officers attend all public meetings and monitor all communications.
Tell these HRC totalitarians to FO in no uncertain terms and punish any government or politician or official that does not put democratic rights and civil liberty ahead of cultural Marxist speech codes.
http://www.theeuroprobe.org/curse_of_political_correctness.htm
Malcolm Cross: I did exactly what you did with Mr. Gertstein. I told him the CPC would receive not one more cent of my money until something is done about Sect 13 of the Act. I then sent an email to Mr Nicholson, told him the same thing and asked what he intended to do about the HRC situation. No answer as yet.
Finally, I sent an email to my MP. I live on Vancouver Island and my MP is a member of the CPC caucus. I asked him why he had not answered my repeated queries to him regarding his position on the Private Members Bill sponsored by MP Keith Martin. I ended my email by stating I am a citizen of his constituency, a paid-up member of his party and a donor to his cause and I believe that, considering these factors, I am deserving of the courtesy of an answer.
To date …… no reply from the Member for Nanaimo-Alberni and I no longer expect one.
To all my Canadian friends (yes, I have some), My heart go out to your real loss of freedom. However, with the exception of the those who fought for the King and Country, you have a long history of not being willing to water the tree of liberty in your own cause. You were founded by the American Tories who fled to Canada and by their descendants, they didn’t want to fight for their freedom. You have taken up the American draft dodgers who didn’t want to fight for their freedom. You have given over your most important and basic freedom to liberal, Orwellian, unelected masters, who want to extra-legislate you out of your remaining freedoms, and all you want to do is write letters? As nice as you are, you all seem to be speaking softly, but you apparent have forgotten where you laid the big stick.
I am somewhat reluctant to come down too hard on the federal Conservatives, they are in a minority position and have no guarantee of passing any given legislation. It would probably, imo, be worse to try and fail than to wait until we have a majority.
My so-called ‘Conservative’ government here in Alberta, however, is a different heap of dung altogether. They have a HUGE majority and can do whatever they want, there is no way any proposed legislation of theirs cannot pass. What they are doing about this travesty of justice is exactly NOTHING. And nothing is pretty much what they will get from me in return, neither financial nor electoral support. The Alberta Alliance would be well advised to visibly hop on this bandwagon and make it their own, but I haven’t seen them doing it yet…
Ol’ Country Boy, I hear you! (And, not being the least bit anti-American, I say thanks for your input.)
I agree with everyone here who understands the gravity of our present situation. Many who used to speak out don’t any more.
REAL Women of Canada, despicably maligned and rejected by the elites–and even not so elites–for all 25 years of its existnece, has been sounding the alarm for DECADES. Like Ted Byfield, this group has had its finger on the actual pulse of this country for a long time. While the rose coloured glasses-jackboot-loving crowd has scoffed, Ted and REAL Women have been about 100% correct.
But, Canadians, being the uninformed, “I’d rather only think of nice things and what I like” sheeple they are, have missed the boat. On the tiny, politically correct island on which they’re now stranded, there isn’t much sustenance. Who knows? Maybe the sheep will somehow notice before they starve. (But, being Canadian, maybe not . . . )
The invincible ignorance and complacency of most Canadians makes one want to jump up and down and scream. Whoops: how un-Canadian!
“Central Canadians are the biggest threat to our way of life”(me)
you can point to commisions in Ab and BC, but all in all this is PET baby and EVERYONE who voted Liberal. The loss of free speach is but a symtom of the greater threat.
Sorry Malcolm
I have said so in this forum before, and will say it again. The free speech issue is THE defining issue of our time. Not global warming. Not oil prices. Not the permanent Middle East war. Not the invasion of the third world hordes and their violence, ignorance, and misogyny.
Because as long as we have free speech, we can fight back against those other evils that beset our land.
But if our right to voice our opinion is gone, we are lost. Right now the UN, the EU, universities and governments across the West, and Canada’s HRCs, are telling us (or others in the West) that we cannot disagree with them, or we are criminals. They are criminalizing our thoughts and beliefs.
Political correctness has been eroding Canada, and the West, for a generation. If we let it go any further, there will be no turning back. Our children will grow up in a far lesser world than we inherited from our own parents. And what is sadder, most will not even recognize it after our schools and governments are done brainwashing them.
oops, here is the post again without the typo(s)
Central Canadians are the biggest threat to our way of life”(me)
you can point to commissions in Ab and BC, but all in all this is PET baby and EVERYONE who voted Liberal. The loss of free speech is but a symptom of the greater threat.
IMO the Cons wouldn’t be avoiding this issue if they were not concerned about MSM and losing votes in central Canada, because for some reason they are impervious to facts, truth and history.Central Canadians have shown time again that the “ends justify the means” and they will vote for any party that can maintain the balance of power and control of the purse strings. I don’t believe the Liberals are against free speech, I believe they are just willing to sacrifice it(among other things like winning a war) to keep their seats. They will use terms like “human rights” and how the CPC are against it. Why not, it will work!
Sorry Malcolm
We could try this one, all the LPC take great pleasure in calling us NeoCon puppets of Bush, a lot of people do not like Bush by extension they could there for focus hatred on Conservative supports. Just a thought. LOL
I still believe that the best way to fight this is to stuff all the “Commissions” with so many complaints from their own rulings that they can’t see over the stack.
Truly “hung by their own petard”.
My contribution below, which included the information from the Supreme Court. Do you think they’ll care now?
Probably not.
To: Prime Minister Stephen Harper
CC: All Members of Parliament
Dear Prime Minister;
As you are undoubtably aware, many Canadians have become alarmed with attacks on freedom of speech by both Federal and Provincial Human Rights Commissions and tribunals. Thus far, our entreaties to our elected representatives have largely gone unanswered.
Perhaps you too will share our concerns after noting that the Supreme Court of Canada is examing and I quote: “Whether the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Canadian Human Rights Tribunal have jurisdiction to inquire into the content of communications between a Member of Parliament and his(her) constituents.”
This is a truly frightening escalation in the loss of democracy and freedom in Canada and I hope you will share the alarm I express. It strikes me as not only ironic but absurd, that we would ask brave young Canadian men and women to put their lives on the line in order to promote and provide fundamental human rights in Afghanistan, even while our quasi-judicial and un-elected ‘civil servants’ actively attempt to undermine and remove those same freedoms at home.
I look forward to your response regarding this issue.
As I said to one of my liberal friends, if I ever buy a gun again it won’t be for shooting ducks. He was aghast at what I had just said, as a matter of fact so was I.
i’m with Lori on THE suppression of free speech being the defining issue and i am encouraged to see letters like No Guff has written.
forgive this analogy – but we’re in round 3 of a 15 rounder and the hrc’s don’t stand a chance. this is an issue that is not going to lie down or in the venacular “take a dive”. they never EVER even expected a contest. they’ve got one now and they are smarting from the cut lip and black eye received via the blogosphere, parliamentarians, msm journalists and public opinion.
the fed hrc (correct me if i’m wrong) is funded to the tune of $200 million per annum but i don’t think there are provisions for marketing the agenda. watch for it – it’s coming! but this is a long run issue and in the end the hrc’s cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
does anybody feel a little peeved that your tax dollars will be used to promote their agenda? the conservatives must be urged to defund this organisation. FIRE. THEM. ALL. or why not just lay them off in round four? legislation in round five. court challenges in round six. knockout in round seven! they’ll want a rematch, but by that time most of them will be too old or onto another racket in reduced and deserved circumstances.
perseverance is all that is required. and for that i’d like to thank you all on behalf of my children.
There is no point to trying to reform these Kangaroo organizations by stripping them of their Sec 13(1) type powers, requiring them to observe due process and reasonable investigative techniques, adopting presumption of innocence and compensation to the wrongly accused for their legal costs. All these reforms would be good in themselves, but when you are dealing with organizations that are so fundamentally totalitarian in their objectives and methods, so determined to impose political correctness on freeborn Canadians, so empowered by the State, and so arrogant in their reach, it would only be a matter of time before they impose on our freedoms just as heavily as they do now. Look at the ridiculous rulings some of them have made with respect to the housing, employment, service mandate that some of us still think they should have: the right for restaurant workers not to wash hands, the right for transport employees to miss 118 days of work in a year; the right to drive patrons away from a business by smoking pot in its doorways, the right to force businesses to provide services that run against their consciences.
No, what must happen is that if there are any legitimate roles these totalitarians have today, they need to be dispersed among other agencies: the courts; the landlord tenancy adjudicators; the labour boards. The acts governing processing of complaints by these agencies need to specify proper investigation techniques and rules of evidence and adjudication. And there must be recourse for the falsely accused. The so-called Human Rights Commissions need to be put out of our misery. ABOLISH. THEM. ALL!!
I’m heartbroken. Despite my long history of political awareness and a pro-active attitude, I’ve completely failed to pass it on to my children.
Where did I go wrong?
How could I have failed them so?
And what will become of Canada?
My daughters are 35 and 32, both professionals. One is social worker, so I hardly expected her to be a pragmatic conservative, but she’s pretty much oblivious to the greater world around her.
The other? Well, tonight I showed her the great image Kate put up regarding CO2 in relation to the atmosphere and discovered to my chagrin that she hadn’t even heard of Dion’s Green Shaft plan.
Not much point in discussing HRC’s and her loss of freedom, as she’s apparently unaware there’s anything to lose.
How many of our 30-Somethings are like my kids, I wonder?
Ol’ Country Boy: As a now retired Canadian soldier, of over 20 years service, on reading your comments I have to say…I reluctantly have to agree with you.
There are too many Canadians who are totally indifferent to what is going on with the HRCs; and virtually every issue we discuss here on this board. Many don’t believe we are ‘really at war’ in Afghanistan – don’t even realize that perhaps 1/4 of our combat troops – including reservists – are currently engaged with an enemy. Many only see the MSM version of the global warming fraud, if they even care to be interested.
I tried to become a high school teacher…I have the degree…but I can’t get hired on here in Saskatoon, because the School Boards here are too political, and they know that because of my Forces background I would not be a compliant socialist in front of the students. I wanted to try to include such things in class as duty, honour, responsibilty, but it seems the only things that are expected these days for the classroom are navel gazing, pacifism, self-loathing and entitlements.
[quote]You were founded by the American Tories who fled to Canada and by their descendants, they didn’t want to fight for their freedom. [/quote]
O’country Boy,
HEY… what turnip truck did you fall off. I am one of those descendants and would/could deserve the UEL designation. The United Empire loyalists fought on the “WRONG” Side and were kicked out of the US (tar & feathered) YES! they hated the US with a passion but don’t confuse the courage to fight with a failed political position.
We are true cousins by blood, with the founders of the USA, mine goes back to 1530 (Cape Cod “ROGERS”) and a group of Quakers that immigrated to Canada in 1805. (I am a naturalized American)… We Canadian born cousins may be a little slow to see the light but don’t be disrespecting our blood or courage.. its the same as yours!
To: Ol Country Boy
“As nice as you are, you all seem to be speaking softly, but you apparent have forgotten where you laid the big stick.”
I’ve thought this myself. Interesting times for sure. I believe the greatest threat is always the one from within. Someone mentioned a Leviathan spirit one time in another topic. This is no small enemy we face. The socialist rot in Canada runs deep. Not only have we forgotten where we laid the big stick, but most in this country have no idea what the stick even looks like.
Oh Canada, I weep for thee.
Homez- as I stated in a previous post, it is NOT Westerners vs Easterners in this battle. It is
all right-thinking people against the Lib/Left.
I don’t know why you keep pathologically carping about Central Canadians as being the root of all evil, no matter what the subject is. Instead of the blame game, why not try to educate some of them?
Sorry Malc.
It is just my opinion. Correct me if I’m wrong but if Alberta separated from Canada it would cull the majority of socialists who have a direct impact on life in AB.
East vs. West thing:
Once again it is people from central Canada who don’t think it is an E/W thing(i.e. you and Warwick), if you ask a westerner they might disagree with you. I don’t think central Canadians are evil, I just think they are different than us. I feel I have more in common with people in NW USA than people out east(culturally). I believe the difficult thing for people like you is that my desire to separate has nothing to do with you. It is not your issue therefore I think you are out of place trying to define the issue. It is the equivalent of me telling a woman what to do with their bodies, not my place.
I guess what I’m trying to say is regardless of how Ontario votes, even if we get a EEE senate(ya right) don’t I/we have the right to steer our own ship?
Malcom Cross; no disrespect to you sir, but in order to educate someone they first have to be willing to listen.
As a Westerner by birth (and directly related to some “Central Canadians” responsible for this tension)I have to say that I’ve had a gut full of this patronizing, self centered, unending, abuse from Ontario (Toronto and Ottawa respectively).
Iconic was PET’s upraised finger from the rear of the departing train…as it ever was.
Apparantly you are both missing the point. Forgive me but I thought this post was about the
right of free speech and the protection thereof, NOT Western saparation. It appears to me that you think separation will cure all social ills that we are presently facing. Western separation is a topic worthy of debate but when it comes to free speech issues, that concerns all Canadians, regardless of where they live. Again, I submit that this is a fight between right-thinking Canadians and the Lib/Left. While the East harbors most of the latter I don’t think the West has a lock on right-thinkers. I have always believed in a de-centralized form of government where the provinces have more of a say in their destinies simply because of the diversity of their strengths and weaknesses.
Personally I remain ambivalent regarding Western separation.
BCer. FYI, here’s the reply from Nicholson. Now don’t get too excited!
Thank you for your correspondence of June 8, 2008, concerning the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC).
Freedom of expression is a fundamental freedom enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which, in a free and democratic society, may be limited only when such an action is justified.
The Government of Canada is committed to the protection and promotion of human rights. To that end, the Government has introduced in Parliament Bill C-21, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act, which calls for the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) to apply equally to all Canadians. Bill C-21 would repeal section 67 of the CHRA, which currently shields some actions of the federal government or First Nations entities from the application of the CHRA. The repeal of section 67 would extend the rights of First Nations people, primarily those living on reserve, to file complaints with the CHRC.
Canada’s record on human rights is second to none; it is a record of which all Canadians can be proud.
As you may be aware, the CHRC, which administers the CHRA, operates at arm’s length from the Government of Canada and reports to Parliament independently.
However, I would like to inform you that my caucus colleague Mr. Rick Dykstra has tabled a motion that the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights examine and make recommendations with respect to the CHRC, including its mandate, operations, and interpretation and application of provisions relating to section 13 of the CHRA, which addresses hate messages. I look forward to that review.
Please be assured that your concerns have been given proper consideration. Thank you again for writing.
Yours truly,
The Honourable Rob Nicholson