‘Roo down
Friday, Noon Pacific, before a long weekend, before an election, the brave ‘roos of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal will release the Mark Steyn/Mcleans decision. Brave ‘roos, courageous ‘roos.
I’ll be standing by to do live interviews with the CBC et al, only to find they’ve all left the office early for the three-day Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, and by the time they return to work it’ll be election fever in Ottawa and nothing else will get a look in. So the kangaroos look like achieving their wish of disappearing the case down the old memory hole. mark steyn
And I will be right here meta-blogging.
But, to ante-blog a moment: does this mean that the ‘roos are going to underbus the jurisprudence (and I use the term in the most sardonic sense) of Collins and thereby risk beheading; or are they going to find in favour of the Mohammadens and thereby invite the Supreme Court of Canada to underbus large swaths of the British Columbia Human Rights Act and with it, by implication, s.13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
I am trying to figure out which would embarrass them more. Which, of course, assumes that they can be embarrassed at all.
(I wonder what other exciting announcements will hit the wires Friday…perhaps Professor Moon will have realized summer is over and deliver his report to the CHRC. Or perhaps already CHRC underbussed Richard Warman will file an offer to settle his sad little law suit. From a PR perspective tomorrow is the day to bring out yer dead.)
h/t five feet of fury whose blogometrix has, apparently, just published a book.
Written by jay on October 9th, 2008 with
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Gary K.
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#1. October 9th, 2008, at 10:19 PM.
Jay,
I’ll be tuning in tomorrow, if only to see how badly you mangle the analysis of this decision/ Take comfort, however, that you can’t make a worse mess than Shaidle and Vere, who wrote a book on the subject and still don’t understand the law, the process or the first damn thing about about human right commissions.
I understand that Shaidle prides herself on being a polemicist and thus is not concerned with niceties like research or factual accuracy or anything other the screeching sound of her own voice but Vere passes himself as a “Canon Lawyer”. I presume that makes him expert in explaining why priests groping choirboys is essential to a just society, but based on his recent scribblings - in which he suggested that we in Canada can file a complaint againts our neighbours for using the N-word — he appears blissfully ignorant of human rights law and, indeed, secular law generally.
To summarize, I guess what I’m saying is, Congratulations on being the tallest midget on this file.