It’s not just the media under attack. Our political freedom is also being hit. The Christian Heritage Party is being attacked by the Human Rights Commission, for its opposition to giving special privilege to homosexuals.

The main culprit, though, is the Supreme Court, which has consistently rejected the first freedom specified in the Charter of Rights, Freedom of Religion, allowing it to be over-ridden even by supposed freedoms which were explicited excluded from the Charter by parliament.

Historically it is clear that freedom of Religion is the first vital freedom. Freedom of speech and Political freedom derive from that first freedom. If you doubt that, look at the officially secular states of the last century, and see how few of them left any semblance of freedom of any sort.

There is no way to ban “bad” speech without threatening all speech. Canadian so-called Human Rights Commissions are anti-freedom and enemies of democracy. They should be abolished immediately.

e-mail sent to my MP:

I would like to put on record my disgust at the ‘Human Rights’ travesty that is being played out at the Alberta Human Rights Commission in their dealings with Ezra Levant. It is apparent to me that freedom of speech is being attacked at a very fundamental level. Ezra Levant is being put through a quasi-judicial wringer merely for having printed something (or rather reprinted an existing publication) that a third party says has hurt their feelings.

I suspect that everyone’s feelings may be hurt most days by something that someone prints somewhere, to which to only reasonable answer can be, get used to it, this is the price we pay for living in a free society. Our government, however, seems to have decided that free speech is too dangerous a tool to allow its citizens to employ. Please be aware that I am strongly opposed to such unwarranted interference by the government in what should otherwise be an inviolable right.

I would like to direct the readers to the website Small Dead Animals for more information on this issue. http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/

This has been going on for years. I was a Correctional Supervisor during the mid-eighties at Kingston Penitentiary and an inmate who was black laid a complaint with the Human Rights Commission against several of us. The complaint was just ludicrous and even dragged a nurse into the mess. But it did teach me about the Human Rights Commission and the power they have. It dragged on for several years and it certainly scared us to think how something so ludicrous could be treated so seriously by so many for so long. I have never looked upon this country quite the same since then. And I lost a father and uncle in the second war. Scary.

I have written to Mr.Harper and my MP quoting parts of your previous post. I agree we should all contact our MP’s. Let’s not let this issue go away.

I agree that the policies of Canada’s Human Rights Commission should be either abolished or completely overhauled. Likewise that of Alberta’s HRC.

Personally did send a letter to the Alberta Human Rights Commissio about their Nazi style of ruling with a copy to the Alberta Premier. Your suggestion to contact our politicians iks a good idea but really meaningless as the died the day they did get elected, Does anyone know when they ever spoke and expressed an opinion. Harper, like previous
Prime Ministers is nothing more than a democratically elected dictator,
celebrating the Trudeau heritage. Best wishes to Ezra Levant.
Regards..

This whole issue is so ridiculous it does not deserve a comment……………………….from a real or ture Canadian.

But I do suggest however that we take the red out of our flag and just fly a white sheet so everyone can stamp thier colour on it.

I’ve already written to both my federal rep, Gary Lunn and to my provincial one, Murray Coell. Murray wrote back to say he’d received my email, nothing more. Gary hasn’t written back - perhaps because he’s been so busy with his own Commission problems; the Nuclear one in his case. It’s not just the human rights commission. As far as I can tell, it’s all the Commissions. These quasi-judicial bodies perhaps once had a good purpose, but over the years have deliberately stretched their powers. The investigative and judgmental parts of these Commissions cohabit the same offices. It’s as if the policeman who arrests you is also your prosecutor and your judge. Fair ‘trials”? Ha!
Good luck with this campaign. I hope lots of people express their views to their politicians. Maybe, just maybe we can get rid of these anti-democratic bodies!
Incidentally the complete videos of Ezra’s ‘interrogation’ can be found on You Tube, in 5 or 6 parts. Also lots more info on Macleans and Mark Steyn at www.marksteyn.com

You are correct on the silence being beyond belief as our right to freedom of speech is taken, quite willingly by Canadians and the people of the press. What to do? Let’s see. Write to your MP? I get no answer. Phone my MLA? Not in and no call back. Wirte to the paper(s) either locally or in the big guys? Won’t print your letter. Canadians are asleep once again AND we are getting what we deserve. I am angry for Ezra. What is happening is WRONG. I have faxed my letter to the Alberta Human Rights Commission saying they are wrong in this charge. NO REPLY. NCC - what do you do? Where is the fear factor coming from in the media?

I find the “human rights commission” offensive to my beliefs.

This new tactic by the Whahabbi-Islamists in canada reminds me of the case where Dr.Sheea Khan and CAIR shot themselves in the foot when she tried to Sue 2 canadians into silence about CAIR’s ties to Hamas and Hezballah funding and Maher Arar’s link to the Holy Land Foundation
that is now in Court of Terrorism funding .

Khan cried Islamophobia and denied CAIR-Canada had any link to CAIR USA that was under attack in the US by the FBI for being a Front for Hamas to raise money , Khan toured the usual MSM outlets that listen to her tripe and she had plenty op-ed’s on CAIR’s site to back her lies.
But once a FOI search revealed her Signature on a Revenue canada Document for “Charity-Status” and it declared CAIR-USA as the parent Org. of her Chapter , Khan dropped the Suit so a Judge wouldn’t see the paper trail to prove that 90% of CAIR’s donation in canada were sent to CAIR USA .

There is a video by Nihad Awad where he admits to supporting Arar since 2002 , Awad is employed with CAIR and is now tied to Hamas funding via Holy land Charity , and during the Arar Inquiry I discovered that Arar at a Home near the Boston Airport around 2001 and he and his wife travelled to the USA by car to avoid Airport checks to trace their globe-trotting.

I believe that when Arar fled canada with his family to live with his wifes relatives in Tunisia he then had to flee that Country once the Tunisian Police were watching him and he plan was to meet with CAIR members at JFK to wisk him off to hide him among other muslims as many illegals do by living in Mosques run by the Militant Islamists , but when Arar arrived at JFK by himself with a Canadian passport and a bogus story about a job-offer in the USA , he was denied entry because of his past connections around Boston and the alleged radical Mosque he attended from his home in Boston.

Arar’s wife waited until she was back in canada to paint the USA as evil for snatching up her loving dad from the USA and sending him to Syria to be tortured , the NDP and Layton avoided any mention of Arar’s gun permit in Canada or his Home in Boston or that Arar fled Tunisia by himself to try to enter the USA and hide with the help of CAIR , it was CAIR that backed Arar’s $400 million dollar lawsuit against us canadians for waht Jordan did and what his Homeland of Syria “Alleged” to have done.

Arar and CAIR never had any plans to go to Court and force Arar to give evidence , there wasn’t any , he was denied entry to the USA and only Jordan would take him back because Tunisia refued since he may make an Asylum claims with his Family .
Justice O’Connor was lied to by Khan and CAIR who stacked the witnesses at the Inquiry , after all folks , Arar wanted $400′000′000.00 but settled out of Court for $10 million which means the Torture couldn’t have been that bad to give up $390 Million just to settle.
Imagine Suing for $4000.00 and you settle out of Court for $100.00 , Judge Judy would have laughed Arar right out of the Courtroom as a whiner and liar.

To Glenn Re flag - HOW appropriate - good view.
To Roger Graves: Tk you for sharing your letter to your MP - will use it as well if that is ok.

To Roger on Arar - We all smelled a rat, we all knew we were being snowed by the whole thing - yet, true to form, we were/are kept in the dark. We are being given only the inof ‘deemed’ appropriate and hence the term “brain washed’ would apply. The worst part is, what to do?
The NPost had run a contest to describe Canada in 6 words or less - mine did not make the big list, but I did get an honorable mention with “CANADA - LOST” and you know, it applies over and over again. Liberals messed this country up so bad and no one has the ‘guts’ to change it. Therefore ‘CANADA-LOST’ once again applies.

To Roger GRaves: I used the major portion of you letter and added the following:

I propose this very case be front and centre at the next election since ‘freedom’ of speech is the one fundamental ‘freedom’ that democracy should protect at all cost. Yet this travesty, through which Ezra Levant is suffering at the hands of a rogue idealist’s position (a government employee no less), continues to go unchallenged by those in our government, who were chosen by the people to work on their behalf, yet fail to protect, repeatedly. You all took an oath. Now is the time to act on it.

Our democratic process is threatened by the Human “rights” commission.It all needs to be publicized,by who I can’t figure cause news media are lap dogs for the Left.
last eve on Glenn Beck,channel 80,7 or 9p.m. Had Ezra levant on and decried the loss of canadain freedoms if the H.R.C. continues to be so trrannical.
Paula moshonas

Who is Roger in this comment section?

This is one of the most sinister actions i have seen in Canada in my lifetime. I would like to see the NCC make this one of our top issues. Maybe a special fundrasing campaign with billboards, newspaper ads, etc.

To All Canadians:
We know that millions of people have lost family members and friends in wars that were being fought to defend a very basic right of a civilized democratic country, which is the freedom of speech. When the citizens of any country lose that basic right of freedom of speech, chaos occurs followed by the loss of all rights and freedoms.

In recent years, that basic right of freedom of speech has come under attack by small minority religious groups, as members of the Canadian Islamic Congress. The Canadian Islamic Congress is using the services of the Canadian and Provincial Human Rights Commissions to orchestrate these attacks on our newspapers, their employees and our freedom of speech. The Human Rights Commissions are funded in part with Canadian Taxpayer dollars. The case they brought to the Human Rights Commissions was that factual statistical information reported to and published by these newspapers about their religious group has subjected members of their religious group to hatred.

In actual fact their use of publicly funded Human Rights Commissions to attack all Canadian’s basic right of freedom of expression or freedom of the press may now and only now subject members of their religious group to hatred and contempt. Canadians historically will work for peace and if possible avoid direct confrontation at all costs but when our basic right of freedom of speech is attacked, we will work even harder to defend that attack.

Yours truly,
Ken Kellington,
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
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Human Rights Commissions are posing a CLEAR & PRESENT danger to our democratic society! Ezra Levant said it so well - that their modus operandi contravenes our western judicial values - freedom of press, innocent until proven guilty, right to a fair trial etc.

Politicians have superficially set up these commissions for political posturing. As the saying goes - “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”. It’s time Canadians became more aware of this emerging “Hell”.

I would also echo Ezra’s suggestion that the rulings of these Commissions should be repeatedly challenged in our court system. Furthermore, these challenges should become very public & embarrasing to the politicians.

WHAT BETTER PLACE TO START THE PROCESS, THEN THE NATIONAL CITIZEN’S COALITION!!

I wish Ezra Levant every success. The human rights and many other commissions should have restrictions placed on them or possibly completely eliminated. Canada is currently a poor example of a democratic country with a French minority trying to take over the country

Thanks everyone for their comments and their letter writing- keep it up and get your friends involved as well. Politicians need to hear from as many people as possible so they will not just ignore this issue.

To Alan, L.G. and everyone else that wants the NCC to make this a much more detailed campaign- we intend to do exactly that- we will have web campaign content up next week on this very important free speech issue and we are looking at radio ads and newspaper ads in the next little while to continue to keep this very important issue on the front burner.

The mainstream media has largely ignored this but we will not.

Check back on our web site campaign section next week for more information on this.

Again , many thanks to all for their comments and keep up the pressure.

Peter Coleman
President
National Citizens Coalition

Keep up the good work. You are much more elequent than most of us, but our hearts are with you.
How do we reign in the HRC? Also how is the fund raising going vs. the lawyer dollars.
We all need to speak up, but our problem in Alberta is that the conservatives are the only choice and often they are worse than the NDP in Sask. The Liberals are just a non starter since the NEP. They will have 100 years of banishment to the back seats.

The difference between a prejudice and a conviction is that you can explain a conviction without getting angry, but we now have a deadbeat bureaucracy defending pathological anger that comes from the insecurity of a hypocrite.

I am a Canadian born senior citizen who has become terribly disturbed with the fact that our country has decided to impose communistic measures on our citizens. I strongly suspect that this removal of freedom of speech from the people of Canada, and the media, is a direct result of the numerous complaints by citizens, who feel excessive immigration from the third world has destroyed the quality of life in this country.
Reports of Canada’s newest political prisoner “Brad Love”, being sentenced to eighteen months in prison, has many people here very upset.
This man was not a neo-nazi, nor a white supremacist. Mr.Love was nothing more than a middle age construction worker who decided to write many letters to Canadian politicians. Mr.Love learned that “The truth is no defense” in a Canadian court of law. I have not seen this type of thing since Castro took over Cuba, and I am deeply concerned about the future of my children, and my grandchildren. The future of this country is looking very bleak, what a sad situation. Each morning I wake up hoping this is all a bad nightmare, but the truth is that maybe I’ll wake being Mr.Loves cell mate.

Contact information for Canada’s latest political prisoner:
Mr. Brad Love
Political Prisoner Section
Lindsay Super Jail 541
Highway #36, Lindsay
Ontario, Canada K9V 6H2

Have a good day, and be careful what you say, John Newton

—– Original Message —–
From: John Newton
To: John Newton
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 4:15 PM
Subject: Every Canadian should read this - So very important for the future of your children

Commission become Communists?

Communists
The Canadian Human Rights Commission

The Communists targeted one race
The CHRC targets only working-class Whites, whose beliefs they disagree with

The Communists used unfair courts and tribunals while limiting any possible defence

Not a single person has ever won a case before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (over 40 cases…)

The Communists targeted the poor
98% of victims the CHRC attacks are poor. 90.7% of victims are so poor they are not able to even hire a lawyer to represent them.

The Communists used all means at their disposal to silence their opponents.
The CHRC shall “…try by persuasion, publicity or any other means that it considers appropriate to discourage and reduce discriminatory practices…”

Section 27(h) - Canadian Human Rights Act

The Communists used the NKVD to attack political opponents
The CHRC has benefited from the Police raiding people’s homes for alleged “hate”. No criminal charges come but the CHRC uses the seized material against victims

The Communists would get people fired from their employment over their beliefs

A recent victim of the CHRC (Terry Tremaine) was fired from his position at the University of Sask. for his political beliefs.

The Communists used street thugs to attack their enemies
Paul Fromm, Canada ’s largest defender of CHRC victims, had his house attacked by a crazed mob of radicals and is constantly physically attacked

Stephen Harper (Conservative Party Leader, current Prime M inister):

“Human Rights Commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society…It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.”

(BC Report Newsmagazine, January 11, 1999)
For more than twenty years, in this column and

elsewhere, I have been writing against the human rights commissions, which have quasi-legal powers that should be offensive to the citizens of any free country. They are kangaroo courts, in which the defendant’s right to due process is withdrawn. They reach judgements on the basis of no fixed law. M oreover, “the process is the punishment” in these star chambers — for simply by agreeing to hear a case, they tie up the defendant in bureaucracy and paperwork, and bleed him for the cost of lawyers, while the person who brings the complaint, however frivolous, stands to lose nothing.

Ottawa Citizen - December 9, 2007

Human rights commissions are obsolete bodies whose moment has passed. That they can be exploited by a narrow lobby seeking to impose its doctrine upon other Canadians is a serious problem.

Calgary Herald - December 19, 2007

there is plenty of prima facie evidence to suggest the “human rights” racket is systemically corrupt. I will cite only the most obvious example: In the three decades of its existence, no defendant dragged before the Canadian Human Rights Commission under a Section XIII complaint has ever been acquitted. A “court” that only reaches the same verdict is not the most reassuring example of justice’s blindness.

M ark Steyn – January 2, 2008