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"No monarch, no parliament, no government, and certainly no bureaucratic agency operating the pseudo-law of section 13 can claim jurisdiction over my right to think freely, to read freely, to speak freely and to argue freely." Those were the closing words of Mark Steyn's testimony before parliamentarians on the Canadian House of Commons' so-called justice and human rights committee just two weeks ago. His call fell on deaf ears. Yesterday, the justice committee tabled its report on "online hate" in Canada's parliament. The report laid out nine recommendations, one of which being that government should provide a "civil remedy for...

This coming Tuesday, June 4th, I'll be returning to Ottawa to testify to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. Last time I was there, a decade back, it was to trash Canada's ghastly and shameful "hate speech" law, Section 13 - after which, I'm glad to say, Section 13, got repealed by Parliament. But there are no permanent victories, and thus, the battles of the late oughts being long forgotten, today's Liberal-controlled House is minded to exhume Section 13 and restore it to hideous life. So here we go again. Joining me on Tuesday morning...

Free speech advocates are hailing a move by the Canadian Senate this week to abolish a highly controversial section of Canada's Human Rights Act which, critics say, has been used to stifle the opinions of right-leaning journalists such as Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant. The Sun Media Corporation, Canada's leading newspaper publisher, said: "Section 13 ostensibly banned hate speech on the Internet and left it up to the quasi-judicial human rights commission to determine what qualified as "hate speech." But, unlike a court, there was no presumption of innocence of those accused of hate speech by the commission. Instead, those...

Essentially, it would prevent the CHRC (ironically, the subject of at least one major RCMP investigations over their tactics) from being used by the likes of Warman as a way to censor opinions he happens not to agree with. In layman’s terms, it would cut his pathetic little balls off and force him to get a new hobby.