[June 26, 2014] At midnight tonight, Canadians can breathe a little easier and speak their minds online, thanks to Bill C-304, which officially comes into ‘force’ on June 27, 2014 and repeals Section 13 of the Canadian “Human Rights” Act. Bill C-304 stripped the censorship powers from the ravenous censors at the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission who dragged hundreds of Canadian’s through a rigged Tribunal process – success guaranteed; a complete 100% conviction rate!
Is Marc Lemire under the lifetime ban on free speech?
Can Marc Lemire, if he is under a lifetime ban, phone me, letter mail me, or send me smoke signals indicating what he’d like me to post on various blogs or in print, in order to circumvent this gov’t idiocy?
Another remnant of the Trudeau era!
Was giving Canadians ”the finger” showing respect for their human rights?
Why don`t they ever talk about that on CBC??
I’m ecstatic about this. However, the new tactic of the Left is to do everything to destroy a person or their business if they ever dare say anything that doesn’t conform to the PC Speech Codes. The “Progressive” world we find ourselves in now is anything but progressive.
SPLENDID!
As for PC speech codes they should violated with free abandon…
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Pot and Circuses…
They’ll find another way.
It’s only a baby step – now we have to get rid of the provincial equivalents.
Connie & Mark Fournier must be waiting for their day of freedom to arrive via INTERNET blogging!
There’s a whole other story there, folks!
Yes and Free Dominion still needs contributions to help in their judicial fight (they are raising the money directly this time). And internationally Mark Steyn needs help with his fight against climate change censorship.
Most welcome news in this age of PC BS….
Next step is to completely DE-Fund the CBC…
A Redskins, Indians Fan that enjoys a hike around Chinamans Peak.
“The problem with complaints disappeared when a former employee of the CHRC filed upwards of 26 complaints with the CHRC over internet based content.”
Surely you’re NOT referring to the man Warren Kinsella called,”the bravest man in Canada”!
The HRC is biding it’s time waiting for the day new PM Trudeau brings back all their former authority and more. Young Trudeau is in love with his Daddy’s “gift” to Canada,and will expand their mandate to a USSR type.
See? Elections DO make a difference.
And no, politicians are NOT all the same.
So the next time there’s an election, remember this.
Remember that there is no relief from the courts on this issue. In 2012 the Federal court ruled that Sec 13 was constitutional but the penalty provisions were not. The only way this thing was repealed was through an act of parliament and yes the provincial tribunals need to be looked at as well. Provincial governments will often wait for a human rights tribunal decision to use as an excuse to not make a decision that may go against the politically correct loadmouths.
Don, that is a very real fear. Just look how much Obama has messed up the US. Empty headed Justin will do the same here.
Perverse situation. How does a panel intended to protect human rights become human rights’ worst enemy? Where were all the activist judges when these kangaroo courts operating as judge, jury, and executioner convicted people without following established rules of evidence or courtroom procedure?
I wonder how long before the name of the Oldman River has to be changed to something less age-ist. It would certainly have happened long since if the name was Oldwoman River.
Oldman River? Well they already got Chinaman’s Peak and N-word John’s Ridge. There actually used to be an N-word John’s 4H Club in Alberta. I get the N-word John thing but am still confused why it is racist to call a man from China a China man. It’s our language, keep your fingers off it.
You’re right,in the name of justice it should be renamed the ‘person of great experience’ River.
If elections really made a difference they would be declared illegal by the incumbents.
Thank you Marc for your sacrifice to the cause of freedom of speech/thought -but it is too early to celebrate. We still live in a nation where freedom is loathed by an authoritarian establishment – bastards never sleep , destroying ideological dissent gets them off. It really IS a war. Personally, I believe the courts are too weak to provide a haven for our liberty from malicious prog lawfare – the solution resides outside the narrow confines off the courts. Defensive reaction to anti-liberty assaults in the courts just keeps us treading water. It’s time for a strategic offensive via an organic big tent freedom movement.
This is significant but measured partial victory. The Human Rights Tribunals/’Courts’ are a much bigger threat in and of themselves and they are still operating. Hate speech laws are still a thing.
Well its a good start. Lets not forget though who fought to bring this about. It certainly wasn’t the government.
It was you Canada, along with men like Ezra & Mark Steyn, with a host of others.
We spent treasure & time on an issue that should never have been there to begin with except for the enemies of freedom who have by stealth tried to censor us all.
Normal Canadians won. Not the government funded fascists.
Children using the washroom can now relax as they won’t have to encounter a creepy Kinsella crawling around taking pictures of swastikas
excellent another injustice from the Trudeau era overturned. Now we have to ensure canadians have property rights again which were eliminated by Trudeau with his famous charter.
That last statement is inaccurate. Canadians *never* had their property rights enshrined constitutionally. That the Charter didn’t is another of its major failures.