Our laws schools versus Steyn and Levant
June 4, 2008 Canadian Politics, Freedom of Speech, Internet 4 CommentsBy Dalwhinnie
I have maintained that the hostility shown by Human Rights Commissions towards Steyn and Levant comes from lawyers, some of whom drink deeply from poisoned wells on their passage through three years of law school.
The message being conveyed to the students who take courses from certain professors is that free speech is an American concept, which they are wrongfully exporting to Canada and other places through the usual instruments of cultural imperialism. Mr. Stacey of the federal branch of our human rights commissions was typical in his view that free speech was an “American doctrine”.
I cite as an example the essay found in (2003) 49 McGill Law Journal 59 by Professor Jane Bailey, “Private Regulation and Public Policy: Toward effective restriction of Internet hate Propaganda” as a pertinent example of the creeping abrogation of free speech in the name of “multiculturalism”, and “equality” that were enshrined in Trudeau’s 1982 Constitution. I argue that the consequences of that Constitution are being witnessed now in the prosecution of Steyn and Levant.