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BCCLA Intervene in the Marc Lemire Free Speech case
Saturday, 06 March 2010 10:21
Original Article: here

On February 25, 2010, Canada's largest Civil Liberties Association has filed at the Federal Court of Canada to intervene in the Marc Lemire Constitutional Challenge to the internet censorship of the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission and Section 13 of the "Human Rights" Act.

Motion Record of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association

Notice of Motion (2 Pages)

Affidavit of David Eby - Documenting the BCCLA's history on intervening in Freedom oriented cases (8 pages)

Written Representations - Lays out the BCCLA's position on Section 13 censorship and why it is unconstitutional legislation (16 pages)

[Complete motion by the BCCLA]

 

The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association have made some very good submissions to the Federal Court of Canada on why the power to censor the internet should - and MUST - be removed from the ambit of the fanatical Canadian "Human Rights" Commission.

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MPs shouldn’t throw out the civil liberties baby in effort to eliminate anti-Semitism racist bathwater
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 04:35

NOTE: Amazing to note that an entire legal process is moving in Canada (the land where everyone is equal) to SOLELY protect Jews and their homeland. Nothing to stop racism again Blacks, Muslims (who are the REAL victims of racism since 9/11). Must me nice to be a Jew and be afforded every protection above and beyond the law.

Original Article here [PDF]

The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is skeptical about whether the focus of these hearings on hate speech laws represents a useful step toward the dual and related goals of fighting racism and defending civil liberties. These goals, we believe, ought to be advanced together.

By TOM SANDBORN

VANCOUVER—Some Cana­dian Parliamentarians have recently joined an informal group­ing of legislators engaged in an international campaign to com­bat anti-Semitism. Further to that absolutely worthy end, the Cana­dian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism is holding hearings in Ottawa. Part of their exercise aims at tightening up our nation’s existing hate speech laws (http://www.cpcca.ca/ ).

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Canadian Human Rights Commission calls B’nai Brith’s ‘Audit of Antisemitic Incidents’ crap
Sunday, 28 February 2010 21:30

Original Article here

Author: Marc Lemire

 

Last week, B’nai Brith Canada issued their 2009 “Audit of Antisemitic Incidents”.  As usual B’nai Brith claims that Anti-Semitism "is on the rise."  On February 25 2010, The National Post took B’nai Brith to task over their annual audit / fundraising campaign. But the National Post are not the only people in town to call into question the legitimacy of B’nai Briths annual reports.

 

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Marc Lemire files at the Federal Court to oppose the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission
Saturday, 27 February 2010 12:36

NOTE:  Good luck to Marc Lemire. At the very least he's not in Kangaroo court with a poo-flinging monkey for a judge.

Read Mr. Lemire's Factum: Freedomsite - Marc Lemire's Factum
Cross-Posted: Freedomsite Blog
CHRC Blog: Lemire's Factum

On February 15, 2010, Marc Lemire filed his Memorandum of Fact and Law, which documents the ravenous censorship and corruption of the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission.

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One size doesn't fit all
Thursday, 25 February 2010 00:00

NOTE: The 2010 B'nai Brith Audit will also lump bad thoughts people had about Jews and Jewish Institutions

NATIONAL POST
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Original Article here

The greatest flaw in B'nai Brith's annual audit of alleged anti-Semitic attacks on Canadian Jews and Jewish institutions is that it lumps the entirely trivial in with the truly appalling. An Internet blog posting blaming Jews for the H1N1 pandemic, for instance, is given equal importance alongside repeated death threats made to a rabbi. An 11-year-old boy "caught passing anti-Semitic notes at school" is seen as on a par with a man who pulled a knife on a Jewish father and his son while hurling racist epithets at them.

This fact alone makes B'nai Brith's final tally -- 1,264 anti-Semitic "incidents" in 2009 -- largely meaningless. This newspaper alone gets dozens of hateful spam emails from random bigots every week. That sort of thing is inevitable in a country of more than 30 million people. If we were to "report" all of these episodes to B'nai Brith, the organization's tally could easily double, or even triple. But that wouldn't mean that anti-Semitic hatred "is on the rise," as the group claims every year.

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Internet rendered hate law 'outdated'
Monday, 22 February 2010 00:00

Author: Joseph Brean, National Post
Published: Monday, February 22, 2010
Original Article here

The 20-year-old legal reasoning behind Canada's human rights hate speech law is now "utterly outdated" because of the "interactive, dynamic and democratizing" effects of the Internet, according to arguments in Federal Court.

Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which prohibits online messages that expose identifiable groups to hatred or contempt, was designed in the 1970s for telephone hate hotlines. In 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled it a justifiable limit on freedom of expression, in part because a telephone hate message "gives the listener the impression of direct, personal, almost private, contact by the speaker, provides no realistic means of questioning the information or views presented and is subject to no counter-argument within that particular communications context."

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