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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Ezra Levant is back at it
Our former publisher, Ezra Levant, took September and October (up until today) off to work as a volunteer for the Conservative Party. But, today, he's back to blogging, and back to promoting freedom of speech and expression in Canada.
An excerpt:
As loyal readers of this site know, although I am a conservative and a long-time supporter of the Conserative Party, my animating cause -- the abolition of Canada's corrupt and abusive human rights commissions, especially their Maoist "hate speech" provisions by which they attack dissident political opinions -- is a non-partisan one, and it ought to be.
Two of Parliament's key freedom of speech activists have been re-elected. Conservative Rick Dykstra of St. Catharines was re-elected handily, and Liberal Keith Martin of Esquimalt Juan de Fuca squeaked back in, by a margin of less than 100 votes. Dykstra is the MP who proposed a resolution before Parliament's Justice Committee to have a full-bore review of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, its operations and its censorship provisions in particular. Martin is the MP who really got the ball rolling early in the year, with his private member's motion to repeal that provision altogether. Of course, many other MPs made very encouraging public statements about reforming the commissions, such as Jason Kenney who chaired the "war room" in which I worked this past month.
Go read the rest. And welcome back, Ezra.
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on October 15, 2008 in Freedom of expression | Permalink
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I did a quick scan of the annual report of the Alberta Ombudsman's report last night. The Ombudsman took the AHRC to task for overstepping its authority in cases such as Ezra's. The AHRC challenged the Ombudsman and the affair went to the Court of Queen's bench which sided with the Ombudsman. The Office of the Ombudsman is still awaiting a reply from the AHRC.
Such is the arrogance of the AHRC.
Posted by: DML | 2008-10-15 11:10:18 PM
oh yaaa free speech for everyone no matter what they say, right?
Oh ok well I have some good fannie may stock options for you to buy!!!
Posted by: Merle | 2008-10-16 12:43:11 PM
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