“I don’t know why Mr Wise [a lawyer] is so proud of a system which takes four years to determine whether a Canadian citizen and a major provincial newspaper are permitted to cite passages from the world’s all-time bestselling book [the Bible], but there is plenty of prima facie evidence to suggest the ‘human rights’ racket is systemically correct. I will cite only the most obvious example:
“In the three decades of its existence, no defendant dragged before the Canadian Human Rights Commission under a Section XIII complaint has ever been acquitted. A ‘court’ that only reaches the same verdict is not the most reassuring example of justice’s blindness. Furthermore, over half of all Section XIII cases have been brought by a single complainant, Richard Warman. Mr Warman is not only a near parodic definition of a nuisance plaintiff but he is also a former employee of the very same HRC that has been so attentive to his “grievances”. When we run one of our election competitions at this website, there’s a little bit of small print way down at the bottom saying that any employees past or present of SteynOnline or Mark Steyn Enterprises are ineligible to enter. That’s standard boilerplate in the commercial sector. But apparently in Canada’s highest ‘Human Rights’ ‘court’ there’s no problem about a former employee using it as his own personal inquisition (and, indeed, given the fines he’s collected, personal piggy bank). The willingness of the CHRC to serve as Mr Warman’s enforcer for what he boasts of as a personal enemies list ought to be a public scandal.”
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“In all their whiney columns and letters about their lack of opportunity to ‘rebut’ my piece, the four Osgoode Hall students have not ‘rebutted’ a single quotation, a single fact, a single statistic. And why should they? The accuracy of the statements is not at issue. All that matters is whether you were ‘offended’ by them. So these pseudo-courts are weighing nothing but hurt feelings.”
