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Fundamentalist Christians not a Protected Group |
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Saturday, 31 October 2009 01:03 |
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NOTE: But fundamentalist Homosexuals are
Fundamentalist Christians Are not a Protected "Identifiable" Group, Says BC Judge & AG
VANCOUVER, October 29, 2009. In an exclusive interview with CAFE, Gordon Watson, the Justice Critic for the Party of Citizens, explained that, on October15, a BC Judge, Donna Senniw, agreed with a lawyer for the British Columbia Attorney General's Department that "fundamentalist Christians" are not an identifiable group, under Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code. Sec. 319, the notorious "hate law", criminalizes wilful promotion of "hate" against persons or groups identifiable by race, religious, sex, or sexual orientation. |
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Hate laws backfire on Jews, author says |
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Thursday, 29 October 2009 00:00 |
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Original Article here By DAVID LAZARUS, Staff Reporter Thursday, 29 October 2009 MONTREAL — The federal anti-hate law that “official Jews” lobbied for and got passed has, 32 years later, backfired, sowing the seeds for political correctness, media chill and censorship that have undermined the values that define the Jewish People, says Alberta lawyer, author and activist Ezra Levant.
Levant, who is Jewish, made the assertion in an Oct. 21 talk to a small audience at Beth Israel Beth Aaron Congregation about his 900-day saga of being prosecuted by the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission for reprinting controversial Danish cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad in his now defunct magazine, the Western Standard, in February 2006. “It is what I call the ‘soft jihad,’” said Levant, describing the actions of Muslims who file complaints with human rights commissions against those they perceive to have aggrieved them. “I was a Jewish publisher of a Zionist newspaper charged for publishing the news.” |
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Parliament's JUST committee continues their review of CHRC |
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Saturday, 31 October 2009 00:52 |
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Parliament’s JUST committee continues their review of the censorship provisions of Section 13… Next up, the Chief Kangaroo and her cheering section Tune in live on Monday from 3:30 to 5:30pm, and watch the CHRC and their cheering section at the Canadian Jewish Congress, squirm under questioning from Members of Parliament. More information here: JUST Committee – Notice of Meeting |
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Writers call for probe into human rights commission |
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Tuesday, 06 October 2009 00:00 |
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Original Article here CBC News Service Tuesday, October 6, 2009Two writers appeared before the justice committee on Monday, repeating their call for a repeal of a controversial section of the Human Rights Act, and asking for a probe into the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn are also calling for the elimination of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which allows the commission to investigate allegations of hate speech. "I think a very practical, doable thing for this committee and for Parliament would be to repeal Section 13 of the Human Rights Act altogether, to leave any hate speech prosecutions to the Criminal Code with its proper checks and balances, and frankly, to bring in a forensic audit to the Human Rights Commission to examine the allegations that I have made," Levant told the commission. |
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Will Rob Nicholson try to save the censorship law? |
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009 00:00 |
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By Ezra Levant on September 30, 2009
On September 2, the vice-chair of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, Athanasios Hadjis, declared the censorship provision of the Canadian Human Rights Act illegal. That was quite something, given that Hadjis himself has brutally enforced that section as recently as two years ago. But declare it illegal he did. Here's paragraph 295 of his lengthy ruling:
For all the above reasons, I find that s. 13(1) infringes on Mr. Lemire's freedom of expression guaranteed under s. 2(b) of the Charter, and that this infringement is not demonstrably justified under s. 1 of the Charter.
Hadjis is reflecting the growing bi-partisan consensus against both section 13 (the censorship provision) and the CHRC in general. Hadjis is a Liberal, appointed by Jean Chretien. He is supported by a Conservative appointee, Edward Lustig, who indicated in his ruling earlier this year that he would abide by Hadjis's findings here. (Lustig also called out serial CHRC complainant Richard Warman for his online anti-Semitism, calling it "disturbing and disappointing."
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Human rights commission 'corrupted,' critics testify |
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Monday, 05 October 2009 00:00 |
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Original Article here Janice Tibbetts, Canwest News Service Monday, October 05, 2009 OTTAWA -- Two free-speech crusaders appealed to a parliamentary committee on Monday to do its part to strip the Canadian Human Rights Commission of its power to investigate complaints of online hate, alleging that it is bad law that has been "corrupted and diseased beyond salvation." Blogger Ezra Levant and author Mark Steyn contend that if anyone in Canada should have the power to investigate online speech, it should be police - not human rights employees who have behaved like out-of-control thought police. "I call on this Parliament to assert its oversight role and compel a full inquiry into the commission," said Steyn, who was the target of a hate speech complaint by Muslims two years ago for an excerpt published in Maclean's magazine from his book, America Alone. |
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