CANADA’S KANGAROO-COURT “HUMAN RIGHTS” PROCEEDINGS are getting bad reviews in the Canadian press:

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal is murdering its own reputation by putting on trial an offensive article published by Maclean’s magazine two years ago.

Plus this:

Were they not inexorably entwined in the mock trial of Maclean’s magazine and the attempt to limit legal expression of opinion in this country, the four legal amigos seated at the B. C. Human Rights Tribunal’s table of complaints would almost be pitiable. Not pitiful. . . . proof has no relevance at this Tribunal; one may claim anything.

And this:

The writings of Canada’s most talented journalist, Mark Steyn, went on trial in Vancouver on Monday, in a case designed to challenge freedom of the press. It is a show trial, under the arbitrary powers given to Canada’s obscene “human rights” commissions, by Section 13 of our Human Rights Act.

I wrote “obscene” advisedly. A respondent who comes before Canada’s “human rights” tribunals has none of the defences formerly guaranteed in common law. The truth is no defence, reasonable intention is no defence, nor material harmlessness, there are no rules of evidence, no precedents, nor case law of any kind. The commissars running the tribunals need have no legal training, exhibit none, and owe their appointments to networking among leftwing activists.

I wrote “show trial” advisedly, for there has been a 100 per cent conviction rate in cases brought to “human rights” tribunals under Section 13.

Funny, but there doesn’t seem to be much connection between “human rights” and, you know, actual human rights.