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Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

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January 17, 2008 By admin

Including updates on Ezra Levant, too.

Levant asks “What Can Be Done?”

“Far better for a government to abolish those commissions, and take those budgets and invest them in civics programs — teaching Canadians, especially new immigrants, about the most precious and valuable human rights around, the ones we have inherited from 800 years of tradition in the free west. It is not a coincidence that the two recent complaints against free speech were filed by radical Muslim immigrants from Egypt and Pakistan. Basic civics classes — not partisan political indoctrination, but a basic primer in the rule of law; fundamental freedoms; the equality of men and women; non-violent solutions to problems, etc.

“A week ago, I would have thought that this last option would have been politically impossible. But, given the overwhelming support I have received from the general public — and the positive reception from even liberal and many left-wing commenters — I think that an abolition of the commissions and their tribunals would be well-received.

“I’d invite people to help with this process…”

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