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June 23, 2009
House Un-Canadian Activities Committee
Jennifer Lynch, chief commissioner commissar of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, keeps a file on blogs and media critical of her and her colleagues.
Much as the new fascism calls itself anti-fascism, the new McCarthyism masks itself in the rhetoric of human rights.
“Please, please, look. We have experienced 16 months of invective hurled at us, and at any time when anybody has tried to speak up and correct misinformation, gross distortions, caricaturizations, then the very next day there’s been some full-frontal assault through the blogs, through mainstream media. I have a file. I’m sure I have 1,200, certainly several hundred of these things,” she said.
Jay Currie has a few questions for this servant of the Crown:
... under what authority did you compile your file? Who paid for its compilation? How much staff time has been devoted to capturing the names of Canadians exercising their fundamental right to free expression? Who have you shared your little list with? How have you characterized the people on your list?
This is entirely outrageous. The CHRC is not supposed to be in the business of collecting information about Canadians’ political views and yet this coward has a file full of precisely that – political opinion.
This is not the action of a mild little administrative branch – this is the action of someone who does not believe in the fundamental political freedoms of Canadians enshrined in the Charter.
This is entirely outrageous. The CHRC is not supposed to be in the business of collecting information about Canadians’ political views and yet this coward has a file full of precisely that – political opinion.
This is not the action of a mild little administrative branch – this is the action of someone who does not believe in the fundamental political freedoms of Canadians enshrined in the Charter.
Again, Blazing Cat Fur has posted information for anyone wishing to make a Freedom of Information request.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at June 23, 2009 08:48 AM
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