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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadia...sion#Criticism

Criticism

Alan Borovoy, the general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association -- and one of the architects of modern Canadian human rights law -- wrote "during the years when my colleagues and I were labouring to create such commissions, we never imagined that they might ultimately be used against freedom of speech." Censoring debates was "hardly the role we had envisioned for human rights commissions."[1]

Borovay further added that:

"Although it's true that they have nailed some genuine hatemongers with it, it has nevertheless been used or threatened to be used against a wide variety of constituencies who don't bear the slightest resemblance to the kind of hatemongers that were originally envisioned: anti-American protesters, French-Canadian nationalists, a film sympathetic to South Africa's Nelson Mandela, a pro-Zionist book, a Jewish community leader, Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, and even a couple years ago, a pro-Israeli speaker was briefed about the anti-hate law by a police detective before he went in to make a speech."[2]

Borovay added that none of these cases resulted in a lasting conviction or property seizure "But only lawyers could be consoled by that."[2]

White supremacists James Scott Richardson and Alex Kulbashian, who ran a racist website called "Canadian Ethnic Cleansing Team," are currently challenging the constit



this guy is on radio saying the ca gov hijacks a wireless conection posts on boards and blames people for hate speech and finds them guilty 100% of the time

http://www.gcnlive.com/

http://www.gcnlive.com/On_Demand.html

the second show from bottom

What Really Happened
Michael Rivero

in an hour it will upload for playing all week i think on demand