I'm waiting for the accusations of hate-mongering to start coming in in response to at least one of today's posts. I refer to the one quoting comments on the Toronto Star's story on "human rights abuses".
Sadly, things have gotten to the point, in Canada, where one risks being labelled a "hater" for daring to voice even a mild opinion that multiculturalism is the greatest con job ever perpetrated on Canadians, or that immigration from the third world is not an unalloyed boon.
As Mark Steyn (who writes for Maclean's among others) discovered, you can get hauled in front of one or more human rights tribunals for merely quoting someone else's non-PC opinion. So Walt, fearless as ever, is going to do just that, taking one more quote from the comments on the Star's story.
"A former Director of Ontario's Commission publically called for an end to the legal presumption of innocence, and the Federal Commission opined publically that 'Freedom of Speech is an American concept that we don't give much credence to.' Any Canadian who has any love for Common Law liberties wants these Commissions shut down. No changes, no adjustments or timkering. The Laws that create them repealed, and the Commissions shut down forever. No compromise."
John Ibbitson left that one out of Open and Shut. If there's one idea or ideal or right which Americans understand and practise far better than Canadians, it's freedom of speech!
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