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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. 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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Parliament’s JUST committee continues their review of the censorship provisions of Section 13… Next up, the Chief Kangaroo and her cheering section Tune in live on Monday from 3:30 to 5:30pm, and watch the CHRC and their cheering section at the Canadian Jewish Congress, squirm under questioning from Members of Parliament. More information here: JUST Committee – Notice of Meeting |
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Original Article here OTTAWA — Veteran judge and former Mulroney cabinet minister Pierre Blais has been appointed chief justice of the Federal Court of Appeal, replacing John D. Richard, who retired July 30. Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the announcement today. Blais, a former justice minister who has been serving as a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal, was first appointed to the Federal Court in June 1998 and the appeals court last year. He was first elected to the House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative MP in 1984 after practising law with the Quebec City firm of Morin, Lemieux, Blais. He was re-elected in 1988 and served in multiple junior cabinet roles under then-prime minister Brian Mulroney before he was given the justice portfolio in 1993. Blais received a Bachelor of Arts in 1968 and Bachelor of Laws in 1976, both from Laval University. He was admitted to the Barreau du Quebec in 1977. |
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Original Article here CBC News Service Tuesday, October 6, 2009Two writers appeared before the justice committee on Monday, repeating their call for a repeal of a controversial section of the Human Rights Act, and asking for a probe into the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn are also calling for the elimination of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which allows the commission to investigate allegations of hate speech. "I think a very practical, doable thing for this committee and for Parliament would be to repeal Section 13 of the Human Rights Act altogether, to leave any hate speech prosecutions to the Criminal Code with its proper checks and balances, and frankly, to bring in a forensic audit to the Human Rights Commission to examine the allegations that I have made," Levant told the commission. |
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The free speech advocates testify before the House of Commons Justice Committee October 5, 2009 A tandem appearance by Maclean’s columnist Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant, former publisher of the Western Standard magazine, made for an unusually entertaining first day of hearings at a parliamentary committee probing the controversial powers of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Steyn and Levant were called as witnesses by the House of Commons Justice Committee because they have both clashed with the commission and emerged as impassioned advocates for the repeal of Section 13 of the Human Rights Act, which gives the commission the authority to investigate complaints about hate speech. They put on the anticipated lively show as the committee launched deliberations on Section 13. At one point, Steyn called the human rights commission’s investigators “psychologically disturbed.” Levant catalogued allegations of outrageous entrapment techniques he says have been used by the commission in an “out of control” hunt for hate-speakers to drag before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. |
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