The Commissioners have now released their final ruling and have decided not to hear the case. Of course, being apparatchiks of the pseudo-“human rights” establishment, they couldn’t leave it at that. So they added the following:
While freedom of expression must be recognized as a cornerstone of a functioning democracy, the Commission strongly condemns the Islamophobic portrayal of Muslims, Arabs, South Asians and indeed any racialized community in the media, such as the Maclean’s article and others like them, as being inconsistent with the values enshrined in our human rights codes. Media has a responsibility to engage in fair and unbiased journalism.
So in effect the Ontario “Human Rights” Commission, the world leaders in labiaplasty jurisprudence, have decided that, even though they don’t have the guts to hear the case, they might as well find us guilty. Ingenious! After all, if the federal Human Rights Commission hadn’t been so foolish enough to drag Marc Lemire to trial, their bizarre habits of posting their own hate messages using telecommunications fraud and identity theft would never have come to light. If they’d simply skipped the trial and declared Mr Lemire guilty anyway, they wouldn’t be in the mess they’re in.
April 11, 2008, 1:24 pm at 1:24 pm
It was obvious from the beginning that there was no case to answer and this so-called HRC should be called into question as they seem to be a huge waste of Canadian tax-payers money.
Steyn knew he was right from the beginning so well done him!
Of course the so-called HRC had to have the last word, it’s their right and all,
/ sarc