While not writing on the freedominion.ca subject exclusively (and by the way, it’s an excellent column—take two minutes and read it), in his column today at the National Post, Lorne Gunter mentioned what I said much more clumsily, of course, just this past Sunday. That is that the liberals’ Canadian Human Rights Commission, with its powers to control and suppress free-thinking people and their views, should not exist.
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Similarly, this week the Canadian Human Rights Commission decided not to investigate a complaint against the Web site freedominion.ca. A crusading lefty academic (who later withdrew her complaint) charged that Free Dominion was guilty of insensitivity to Muslims. Good on the CHRC.
But in a democracy, there should be no government agency at all that has the power to decide whether one citizen’s or groups’ political views are acceptable. The courts exist to hear charges of individual libel. Beyond that, we each have the right to counter views we find objectionable, but not to seek state help in suppressing them.
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But I think this is an excellent time for conservatives and right-thinking, freedom-loving people to hunker down, deploy the assets, and prepare to fight—very vociferously—the liberal-left’s tool called the Canadian Human Rights Commission. We need to take away the powers given to it by liberal-leftist politicians and their agents of political-correctness, and end their ability to silence free speech and ability to shut down the forums of discussion and free speech in this country. The liberal-left has used and abused this weapon in their already large arsenal of weapons (which includes the likes of the liberal-left’s state-run CBC) to once again combat and silence conservatives in this country through illegitimate means, rather than by winning legitimately in the various arenas of ideas, of speech, and of debate. And I’ll have none of it.
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