In but the latest of countless dozens of articles written about the subject (all taking the sensible side of Mark Steyn et al), the American FrontPageMag.com writes up a good summary on the farcical Canadian Islamists’ case being carried out in the liberals’ very compliant “human rights” kangaroo courts against Mark Steyn, Maclean’s magazine, and Canadian freedom.
Free Speech on Trial
…The resulting case brings into bold relief the outsize power that political correctness and its more ardent executors wield in Canada. In the United States, a suit purporting to seek justice for a perceived slight involving nothing more than a difference of opinion would be laughed out the docket. But tolerance for legal frivolity seems to increase above the 49th parallel. A subsection of Canada’s Human Rights Act defines hate speech as speech “likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt.” By that impossibly opaque standard, Steyn’s article – or, indeed, any article – could theoretically be considered hate speech. In practice, as well, that has been the case. The Canadian Human Rights Commission, which enforces the act, has a record of conviction that recalls the awful efficiency of Soviet courts: In over three decades of existence, the commission has yet to find someone innocent. …
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