News! Government establishes Justice committee to look at section 13
January 16, 2009 3:21 pm Canadian Politics, Freedom of Speech, Political CorrectnessAt the request of the Prime Minister, the Minister of Justice has created a departmental committee to examine section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. This is the section which bans hate messages distributed by the Internet. Members include lawyers from various branches of the department of Justice, including constitutional, human rights, criminal and Industry Canada branches.
Whether anyone at this table of worthies will dissent or have evolved from the leftist views with which they entered government in the 1970s is an important question.
Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act has been at the centre of several prosecutions of people for the expression of political opinion.
When will Ezra Levant read Barrelstrength?
The Act states, at section 13:
Hate messages
13. (1) It is a discriminatory practice for a person or a group of persons acting in concert to communicate telephonically or to cause to be so communicated, repeatedly, in whole or in part by means of the facilities of a telecommunication undertaking within the legislative authority of Parliament, any matter that is likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that that person or those persons are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.
Ezra take note. Kathy Shaidle take note. Mark Steyn likewise. You too Kate MacMillan! You saw it here first. We do not normally have news to convey but when we do, we do what we can.
UPDATE: Ezra indeed reads Barrel Strength!
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Dalwhinnie
rabbit :
Date: January 16, 2009 @ 4:14 PM
Superb news! But didn’t Harper say just a few weeks ago in an interview that this wasn’t a priority for his government?
DavidA :
Date: January 16, 2009 @ 4:27 PM
Nice work on the story break!
It is excellent news Rabbit, but I believe that was our PM “playing the game”…he is a politician after all.
JDot :
Date: January 16, 2009 @ 4:39 PM
Rabbit, yes PM Harper did.
The economy is the number one issue for the govenment.
That does not meen the PM would not act. Notice ezra’s post about this passing by the end of the year.
MJH :
Date: January 16, 2009 @ 4:47 PM
Will the Coa;ition support the change? Not likely. Harper needs a majority!
bigcitylib :
Date: January 16, 2009 @ 4:48 PM
And what do you have in the way of evidence for your claim?
Robert McClelland :
Date: January 16, 2009 @ 5:00 PM
Same question as bigcitylib. By the way, I have a dog named dalwhinnie.
John Feldsted :
Date: January 16, 2009 @ 6:33 PM
You are a tad behind times my friend. This story broke at the end of May 2008. http://ezralevant.com/2008/05/government-to-launch-inquiry-i.html
Glendronach :
Date: January 16, 2009 @ 6:59 PM
RTFM, Mr. Feldsted. The Levant item refers to an MP’s motion for a parliamentary committee. Dalwhinnie’s story reports a clearly new initiative at the behest of the Prime Minister for a departmental committee to be struck by the Justice Minister.
Yes Prime Minister | Jay Currie :
Date: January 16, 2009 @ 9:06 PM
[...] At the request of the Prime Minister, the Minister of Justice has created a departmental committee to examine section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. This is the section which bans hate messages distributed by the Internet. Members include lawyers from various branches of the department of Justice, including constitutional, human rights, criminal and Industry Canada branches. barrelstrength [...]
John Feldsted :
Date: January 16, 2009 @ 9:58 PM
Can no one cite a reference for this ‘news’?? There is nothing on the Justice site and a Google news search comes up empty. Until I see a citation or reference to a cource, I remain a sceptic.
truewest :
Date: January 17, 2009 @ 12:27 AM
Evidence? References? Next thing you know, you’ll be asking from some sort of attribution. Or, god forbid, a source.
Didn’t you get the memo, BCL? Still a slave to the MSM, Feldted?
Don’t you understand that the internet is a self-correcting information system. You don’t need no stinkin’ sources – you simply fling something out there, like a big chunk of red meat, and the rest of the internet will spring to life to verify or debunk it.
It’s like magic, they tell me.
Daily Blogger - Saturday, January 17th, 2009 | Jack’s Newswatch :
Date: January 17, 2009 @ 6:17 AM
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Kralizec :
Date: January 17, 2009 @ 12:12 PM
Even an attribution to “a Justice Ministry source insisting on anonymity” would give this dangling bit of naked assertion a figleaf and some much-needed support.
neo :
Date: January 17, 2009 @ 1:00 PM
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“robert mcclelland says… By the way, I have a dog named dalwhinnie”
remember robert, you little screecher… “first they came… for the “village idiot”.”
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Bart :
Date: January 20, 2009 @ 4:44 PM
Cite your source??