Jay Currie

If only a small battle.

The outcome of the s. 37 matter gives me pause to question the soundness of the
Commission’s invocation of public security concerns with respect to the testimony of these
witnesses. ruling of Athanasios D. Hadjis

Mr. Hadjis, who strikes me in my reading of transcript as a decent and fair adjudicator, has ruled that the public, and Macleans Magazine meaning Mark Steyn will be allowed to attend the cross examination of Dean Stacey and the poor woman stuck investigating Warman’s case against Lemire. And he has expressed considerable skepticism as to the invocation by the Commission of s. 37 of the Evidence Act (pace Mike Brock).

This is a tiny, but critical, engagement in the overall battle against the HRC’s censorship campaigns. Now they will have to testify in public as to the means used to attempt to create hate speech which they can then prosecute.

Score a huge one for the blogosphere and the liar Warren Kinsella’s favorite libel lawyer. And hats off to Rogers Communications for putting Mr. Porter in play.

Having read the transcripts it is pretty clear that the Commission has used every trick in the book, including suggesting that one of its own lawyers is mentally unwell, to try and stop the cross examination of Dean Stacey and Hannya Rizk. What are they scared of??

It would be churlish to think that the liar Kinsella’s Easter observances would be spoilt by nightmares…But, hey, I’m a churl.

Update: Ezra is not entirely certain that the liars at the CHRC are going to permit Stacey and Rizk (would that be pronounced “risk”?) to testify. He has his reasons which you should read in full:

I’d say there’s a 50/50 chance the CHRC’s lawyers or staff will pull a Vigna vignette (ed’s note: stating that one is not of serene mind and seeking adjournment) and claim they’ve lost their “serenity” and scupper the hearing—or pull the fire alarm, or do some other childish stunt of the same calibre as their childish Internet costume parties where they dress up as bigots, but then later say they didn’t mean it.