5 Feet of Fury

It’s official: Justice Dept launches review of “hate speech” “likely” clause

Ezra Levant gets confirmation:

Perhaps there are critical voices within the bureaucracy. But it is a shame that there are not public hearings, as would happen with the Justice Committee, where outside experts and members of the public could participate. The CHRC’s many victims will not be heard.

Another concern — my biggest, actually — is that the CHRC will mislead any Justice Department review, an no-one will be there to catch them. The CHRC has shown themselves untroubled by withholding key information, by breaching their own legal requirements as set out under their statute, and by breaching other laws, such as national privacy laws and access to information laws. They don’t even have an internal ethics code…