LifeSite News reports that the Canadian Human Rights Commission has decided to get into the Internet policing business:
The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), which has come under fire for trampling on religious freedoms and freedom of expression, has announced that it has launched a comprehensive policy review of how best to address “hate messages” on the Internet.
The Human Rights Commissions, which have in the past deemed hateful Biblical passages dealing with homosexuality, have now commenced the review, headed up by Professor Richard Moon of the University of Windsor. He is expected to submit his report to the Commission this fall.
Speaking today to the Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies (CASHRA), CHRC Chief Commissioner Jennifer Lynch, Q.C. said, “The current debate on how to balance freedom of expression with the need to protect Canadians from hate messages in the Internet age is an important one.” Lynch added: “Legislation must evolve – when necessary – to respond and reflect changes in society.”
According to the CHRC the review will focus especially on section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the role of the Commission in enforcing that section of the Act. This announcement comes at a time, however, when support is building to remove Section 13(1) from the Act. Section 13(1) has been used by various human rights commission to prosecute “hate speech” in print publications, including one especially high profile case brought against Macleans magazine for having published an excerpt from the book of the popular conservative journalist Mark Steyn.
Hopefully the first thing they will do is address the propensity of staff members of the various HRCs to post hate messages on the Internet. After that, they will presumably move into making the world (read: American bloggers) safe for free speech opponents, Islamic jihadis, and gay rights activists who can’t rest until all people acknowledge the gloriousness of homosexuality. I, for one, as an Internet writer, would like to send the Canadian Human Rights Commission a message: go jump in a lake. I hope that the backlash against the kangaroo court persecution of Ezra Levant, Mark Steyn, Kathy Shaidle, Kate at Small Dead Animals, the Rev. Steve Boissoin, the Rev. Alphonse de Valk, Bishop Frederick Henry, and Catholic Insight magazine puts you out of business, and that a stake will be driven through the heart of politically correct free speech oppression in Canada and on the Internet as a result.
The Reformed Pastor 
June 19, 2008 at 2:49 pm
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June 20, 2008 at 5:36 am
THREATS from the HRC? The Alberta Human Rights Tribunal has ALREADY declared aspects of Christian theology (and jewish theology) as “hatespeech” and therefore “against the law”.
I have posted this elsewhere. It is time for Christians and Jews to return to their places of worship and TELL the congregations what is happening to their rights in Canada. The “right” of Christians and Jews to “religious assembly” will be next on the list.
It’s a crying shame, and Canadians are too smug and self-satisfied to even notice…
August 16, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Catholic Insight faces attack on yet another front. You will also be interested to know Catholic Insight has been put on a Heritage Canada watch list for communicating Church doctrine it deems denigrating to homosexuals, Catholic Insight may lose it’s postal subsidy as a result. Heritage Canada has no difficulty funding a Gay Pornography magazine receiving the same subsidy however.
http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2008/08/heritage-canada-letters-to-catholic.html