CANADA’S “HUMAN RIGHTS” COMMISSIONS are getting more flak:
What would happen if a person charged with murder ended up before a tax court judge?
No doubt it would have many repercussions — a review of how prisoners are handled in the court house, most likely, and certainly the accused would be sent back to await trial before a criminal court.
It is unlikely that the judge would issue a ruling saying: “I have not heard any evidence, but the accused sure looks guilty — and there are a lot of other killers out there just like him.”
But that is just what happened this week in Ontario.
Except that you have to be smart to be a Tax Court judge. And more here:
The Ontario Human Rights Commission seems to like it both ways.
It declines to prosecute columnist Mark Steyn for an allegedly Islamophobic piece published in Maclean’s, as its legislative mandate doesn’t cover publications.
Then, its chief commissioner Barbara Hall calls Steyn’s article an example of how media portrayals of Muslims made “Islamophobic” attitudes more prevalent, “including an unwillingness to consider accommodating some of their religious beliefs and practices. . . . Explicit expression of Islamophobia further perpetuates and promotes prejudice towards Muslims . . .”
It’s as though the witchfinder-general has identified the witch, but with no pyre upon which to burn him, is thereby aggrieved.
Poor old Steyn. If his case had gone to a tribunal, he wouldn’t have had much of a defence: Human rights tribunals don’t regard truth, or fair comment. But, he could have raged against the proceedings with his customary wit.
In this drive-by mugging, his response isn’t even a matter of official record.
And here’s more from The Toronto Sun: “We have a different suggestion for Premier Dalton McGuinty. Premier, isn’t it time your government reined these folks in?”
I’m glad to see the Canadian media focusing on the thuggishness of these so-called “human rights” commissions. The witch-hunt analogy seems about right. In fact, I believe I’ve found the model for the “human rights” commissions.
Of course, according to Nicholas Kristof, it’s all because of global warming: “Here’s a forecast for a particularly bizarre consequence of climate change: more executions of witches.” Forecast? It’s already starting!