Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Says 'Hate Speech' Law Unconstitutional

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[Mark Steyn]
Thank you for posting that, Mark (Hemingway). The Canadian "Human Rights" Tribunal's decision is a huge victory for the free-speech campaign Ezra Levant and I and a few others have been waging for the last couple of years. When Maclean's magazine and I were acquitted by the British Columbia "Human Rights" Tribunal last year, a lot of people looked on it as a Steyn exemption — that if you were a prominent person with a powerful publisher and you both had deep pockets, the thought police would decide that discretion was the better part of valor. And, once the bigshots were out of the way, they'd go back to making life hell for little guys.

But Marc Lemire, though dogged and very deft in his approach, is not a prominent person. Indeed, he's exactly the kind of obscure figure the thought police would have taken to the cleaners a couple of years back. Now the judge has, in effect, ruled that Section 13, Canada's "hate speech" law, is unenforceable against anybody: ...

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