Canada: Conservatives called on to reign in human rights commissions or lose funding
David Warren has this commentary on the Ottawa Citizen. He writes:
Our Conservative government’s cowardly failure to intervene in defence of free press and speech by, for example, immediately withdrawing the egregious Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Code, gives another indication of Canadian sleepiness. (This is the section which empowers the “human rights” commissions to go trawling for political incorrectitude on the Internet.)
In light of which, perhaps the most effective way to support our own beleaguered journalists is for people who have given money to the Conservative party in the past, to make all future donations to the legal defence funds instead, until Prime Minister Harper and company get the message. Don’t forget to send the Conservative party a note explaining what you have done, and why.