Ezra Levant: CHRC sets out to bury the Moon report (End of Canada's "Human Rights Commission?"

National Post ^ | 11/24/2008 | Ezra Levant

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The scandal-plagued Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) has had a rough year — and it just got rougher.

On Monday, Richard Moon, a University of Windsor law professor, released his report on the CHRC’s troubling penchant for Internet censorship. Moon had been hand-picked by the CHRC to review its conduct, so the whole arrangement had at first looked pretty cozy. In the past, Moon had written favourably about government limits on free speech. That, plus a large payment for his brief report, made Moon’s review look like a PR stunt, especially since the CHRC simultaneously hired the pricey lobby firm Hill & Knowlton to provide “communications” advice. It all looked like a strategy to offset six months of bad press — not to mention embarrassing investigations into the CHRC’s conduct by the RCMP, the Privacy Commissioner and Parliament’s Justice Committee.

But to the surprise of critics like me, Moon recommended that section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act — the so-called “hate speech” provision, which empowers the CHRC to censor the Internet and other electronic media — be repealed. Instead of a whitewash, Moon’s report was the opposite — another nail in the coffin of the thought police.

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It looks more and more that the next Canadian parliament will repeal the "hate speech" provision that gives the odious Canada Human Rights Commission the authority to censor the internet and prosecute alleged offenders - like Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant.

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Canada Ping!

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Thanks for the ping, AAC.

[JimSEA]

It would surprise me if they repeal their hate speech laws in their entirety. There is just too much international pressure in the opposite direction, particularly against the United States. In the often posted NYT / IHT article, the international position on free speech the position of the Left is clearly articulated. Of course, the speech of Louis Farrakhan, William Ayres, or Jerimiah Wright will be forever enshrined. Look out Rush and Sarah.

[goldstategop]

I think the Government finally going to do it. Every one just abhors what the federal Human Right Commission has become and one can expect various provinces to also repeal their sec. 13s as well. Its an embarrassment to the Dominion.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

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BUMP!