About Time
Ezra reports that the CPC has finally figured out that something may be rotten in Denmark.
I would like to inform you that my caucus colleague Mr. Rick Dykstra has tabled a motion that the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights examine and make recommendations with respect to the CHRC, including its mandate, operations, and interpretation and application of provisions relating to section 13 of the CHRA, which addresses hate messages. I look forward to that review. Rob Nicholson
Go read the whole thing over at Ezras.
My take: we are winning. Not fast enough but this is a huge shift. It looks like the hundreds, likely thousands, of emails and letters to MPs of all Parties as well as Cabinet Ministers, have finally lead to a useful result.
Which is not to say we should stop. In fact, we need to keep pushing hard. The CHRC will attempt to nobble the Parliamentary Inquiry, paint the Members as neo-Nazi supporters, stonewall, redact as fast as they can and generally obstruct the business of Parliament. We need to keep researching, pushing, writing and generally raising a ruckus until s.13 is good and dead.
But we are winning and this is huge!
May 31st, 2008 at 10:50 pm
It’s wise to be cautiously optimistic. The CPC have a long way to regain my faith in them as champions of regaining freedom.
They are a deeply compromised government ideologically which has produced deeply compromised “reforms”. We shall see if this compromise extends to securing free speech from corrupt race bating grudge racketeering in the “hate” industry.
I remain a jaded CPC watcher.
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