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Reader Tips

From eye problems to isp problems. (Posting this from a friend’s computer). I have no idea how much access I’ll have today, it depends on why my connection comes back up. Urgh.
Well, my eyes need the rest anyway.

Reader Tips – HRC Roundup

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.

Paging Sarah Polley;

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!
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