Contributed by: filbert Thursday, September 03 2009 @ 06:55 PM CST
Attentive folks may have heard of the Canadian Human Rights Commissions and their sordid campaign to shut down anyone who comes into their (naturally, left-leaning) crosshairs.
Well, it seems he’s lost a case. A big one[*1] .
Today’s shocking decision is a victory over Mr. Warman by Marc Lemire, webmaster of freedomsite.org and a prominent figure in the Canadian far right, who was supported in his constitutional challenge of Section 13 by the legal team defended Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel.
Mr. Warman alleged that postings on Mr. Lemire’s website, written by others, contravened Section 13 in that they were “likely to expose” identifiable groups to “hatred or contempt.”
Mr. Lemire responded by challenging the law itself, which was last upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada in a 1990 split decision, before the Internet age.
Could the day be near when political speech is more free in Canada than in the USA?