The Ontario Human Rights Commission’s position on honour killings;

“There are thousands of things that happen in the province of Ontario on a daily basis and we don’t comment on all of them,” she said.
But, I spluttered, women are being murdered.
“As I said, we are a small commission.
“There are many problematic things that happen in our community and we have to make choices because we can’t respond to everything,” [Barabara] Hall said.
So honour killings are merely “problematic”?
Here’s a woman who’s advocated for years on behalf of women’s rights. She found time to crucify Steyn and Maclean’s, but she’s too busy to raise the issue of women who are being murdered over some hideous interpretation of “honour”?

Well, yes! They’re females being murdered by brown males. Hello??
When determining equality as it applies under human rights codes, “female” trumps “male”, but only when there isn’t “brown”. It’s works the same way as “sex” trumps “religion”, but only when there isn’t “muslim”.
You folks in media are kind of slow to catch on.

Mark Steyn testifies before the the legislative hearing on the Ontario Human Rights Commission…

What impressed me most powerfully about the hearing was not Mark’s address but the hatred visible on the faces of the apparatchiks. Imagine a man boldly declaring defiance of their nascent nanny state, backed by thugs. It was never supposed to happen.

The transcript at Post-Darwinist
Meanwhile, over in CHRC land, Jennifer Lynch goes partying in VIenna on the taxpayer’s dime.

G&M;

Brian Storseth, a Conservative MP, has asked the Commons justice committee to review Section 13 of the act, which contains provisions that deal with hate messages. Mr. Storseth also wants the committee to review the mandate of the commission itself.
He told the committee last week that “concerns have been raised regarding the investigative techniques of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the interpretation and application of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.”
Mr. Storseth’s request echoes a similar motion brought by the Conservatives during the previous session of Parliament.

The Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights will be debating the CHRC today (Monday Feb.9) from 3:30 – 5:30 Ottawa time. You can catch the webcast at the link.

University.

… than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined.
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council sanctions talk radio host Lowell Green for noticing out loud.
You can send Mr. Green a message of support here and a running tally of this year’s victims of the Religion of Peace to the CBSC here.
h/t Maz2

The Human Rights racket has hardly skipped a beat, despite the humiliation suffered at the hands of the Levant and Steyn fiascos. This beauty comes to us courtesy the Saskatchewan HRC.

The essence of the discrimination ruling appears to have occurred at two points near the end of a heated exchange. During that afternoon of June 8, 2006, Pontes was angry that Tataquason had been there for more than an hour, drinking coffee and talking to his wife while she worked. Tataquason testified that Pontes told him; “Can’t you see she’s working? Get out, this isn’t the friendship centre!”
At other points in his testimony, Tataquason instead used the words “friendship inn.” Saskatoon’s Indian and Metis Friendship Centre is ethnically based while the Friendship Inn is not. The distinction was not noted in the ruling by tribunal member Donald Worme.
The other remark came as Tataquason was being escorted out. Tataquason told Pontes he’d “contact the chiefs and complain about the way Mr. Pontes treated First Nations people.”
Pontes told Tataquason to “go ahead and call his chief.”
Tataquason said he was “deeply hurt” by the remarks. It caused him to “trigger” memories of residential schools he has tried to bury since childhood. Tataquason testified that he “spiraled into depression,” leaving him unable to work. The remark is also responsible for his return to drug use, his marriage breakup, his homelessness and his committing petty crimes, Tataquason testified.
His then-common law wife, Roseann Durocher, testified it also caused her to return to substance abuse. She testified she “wholly believes” Pontes evicted Tataquason because of his race.

But there’s more – the tribunal member who handed down the ruling is Donald Worme.

Don’s legal practice has been focused primarily on those issues that impact Aboriginal people individually as well as on issues affecting First Nations governments and entities. He has been active in promoting and protecting both the collective rights of Treaty First Nation people, and defending and advocating the individual legal rights of Aboriginal people in numerous legal and public forums. Social justice issues, primarily restorative justice, for First Nations people and communities remains an important focus on Don’s legal practice.

Pontes has been ordered to pay $7,000 – and he says he ain’t going to.
I agree – “Congratulate John Pontes on being one of the last men with a functioning set of balls in all of Canada:”
The Cataquiddick case looks stronger by the day.

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(Why yes, it might be a hoax. Who cares? Every time you commit the middle name of The One to animation, a lefty gets his aneurysm!)

“It’s payback time for those who ever thought it should have begun.”

The Left knows how to pluck out the thorns in its side. The Sison saga provides a glimpse into how the hard left enforces consensus and how it defends those who impose consensus. Geert Wilders basic problem is that he is spitting in the face of the professed consensus of “progressives”. And like all other “deniers”, Wilders will pay.
You don’t need to agree with Wilders or like him to ask yourself: ‘if they can do this to Wilders, can they do this to me? Am I safe?’
Maybe we were never safe; and maybe the best thing about the Wilders case is how it destroys the complacent assumption that fairness is automatic. The struggle to keep justice untainted by politics is never-ending.

Ezra, on Holland’s national suicide note
You can follow the Wilders persecution at the International Free Press Society.

According to Barrelstrength;

At the request of the Prime Minister, the Minister of Justice has created a departmental committee to examine section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. This is the section which bans hate messages distributed by the Internet. Members include lawyers from various branches of the department of Justice, including constitutional, human rights, criminal and Industry Canada branches.

(Note – still awaiting an official source for this. Will keep you posted.)

… the CJC did not expose the “hatred and violence”.

For one thing, Bernie, Warren & Co didn’t bother going to the Hamas rallies. Kathy Shaidle did, and Girl on the Right did, and Point de Bascule did, and Kate McMillan and others spread the news about what they saw. Bernie Farber said nothing. Even the great Nazi Hunting Toilet Warrior lui-meme was silent.
What’s interesting about that group is how many of them – Kate, Kathy, Ezra – are being harrassed by Richard Warman, the guy Bernie Farber thinks is the greatest Nazi hunter of all time. The cardboard hero gets garlanded by the CJC, the real friends of Canadian Jews get sued.

Speaking of guitar heroes…
Once upon a time, I owned a Strat. One of the few tunes I could carry off convincingly was “Submission”, (which means I wasn’t very good).
I remember the moment I realized I was too old for punk. It happened on a dance floor, in Edmonton, as I took a long, hard look at the kids around me.
I was 23.

The story of Jim Chatney begins…

… with an act of defiance. He was a farmer from Alberta who was tired of being forced to sell his wheat and barley to a government monopoly and he was determined to show his fellow farmers and the world how unjust this really is in a so-called free society.
13 years ago, in the spring of 1996, Jim joined a small group of farmers at the Alberta/Montana border. Some had tandems, some had semi’s, some were in pickup trucks. Jim had the family van and in the back of it he had something truly dangerous, a weapon of mass anarchy and destruction, … a bag of Wheat.
He took that bag of wheat across to the US and he donated it to a 4-h club. That was Jim’s act of defiance, that was his act of civil disobedience, and that is what ultimately got him put in a Canadian jail. What others had just talked about doing, Jim and his friends actually did.

Read the whole thing.

Canadian Journalism Project – Cast your vote for Canadian Newsperson of the Year

Via Jay Currie;

Ken Whyte backed up Mark and told the socks to stuff it. Go vote for him. […] And lest people think I am trying to freep the poll, I found out about it via the Tyee weekly newsletter which is promoting David [Beers].

“These are not normal civil servants.”
1. John Chamberlin
2. Natalie Dagenais
3. Philippe Dufresne
4. Kathleen Fawcett
5. Harvey Goldberg
6. Fiona Keith
7. Sandy Kozak
8. Catherine Labelle
9. Vera Pantalone
10. Marie-Anne St-Amour
11. Dean Steacy
12. Richard Tardif
13. Marie Wankam
And Jennifer Lynch.

A hearing into the case of Rudolph, a reindeer.
h/t

Convert to Islam, receive your “Get Out Of Thought Gulag Free” card;

“Translation: when a radical Muslim says gays should be killed, Buddhists should be killed, women may be treated like slaves, etc., those victims are not legally considered to be “identifiable groups” — they have no human rights.”

Background – “Why I filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission against a Montreal Salafi imam…”

CHRC delegate – “You must try the champagne glazed strawberries. They’re exquisite.”
CHRC stakeholder – “Only abject subservience to Israel can explain the World Trade Center attack.”
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The Strange Case of Deborah Cansick and the vanishing Freedom of Information Act.

Via Deborah Gyapong;

“The first recommendation is that section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) be repealed so that the CHRC and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal would no longer deal with hate speech, in particular hate speech on the Internet.”

Full report here – commissioned by the CHRC itself.
Update: Unconfirmed sources report that an advisor to the Michael Ignatieff Liberal leadership campaign will be issuing a statement discounting the Moon Report as the work of a “Nazi sympathizer”… developing…
More at the National Post, plus reaction from Kathy Shaidle, and Mark Steyn, with lots of chatter erupting across the ranks of the Blogging Tories.
UPDATE: The CHRC is in full damage control mode – “Lynch is already trying to throw Moon under the bus.”

In her press release announcing his report, which you can see here, you’ll notice something is missing: Moon’s recommendation to repeal section 13. He uses the phrase repeal again and again in his report – but you won’t find it in Lynch’s revisionist press release. It’s like the chapter in George Orwell’s 1984, where Winston is busy cutting out embarrassing items from old newspapers, and replacing them with the new, politically correct truth. That’s what Lynch is doing already.