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October 07, 2009
The big news
Yesterday, Mark Steyn and Eza Levant testified before Canada's parliamentary Justice and Human Rights Committee. The subject: The Canadian Human Rights Commission (video of Steyn and Levant's testimony at the link).
A comment left by DavidL mirrors my reaction.
To anyone who has the time to watch all of this hearing (I did), it becomes immediately obvious why government moves so slowly on issues such as this.
Several members seemed totally unprepared and quite oblivious to any of the current issues and instead held and defended the "party line" and trivialized anything you and Mark were saying.
Having so much of the questioning in French was, to a large percentage of the Canadian public, tantamount to having a partially closed hearing and just made the smokescreen that much thicker.
Only a couple of members of the committee seemed to have any grasp of the real situation and the atrocities being committed and seemed open enough to do something about it.
My gut feeling is that it would be easier to run through a vat of molasses in January than change the opinions of the majority of these members. Now I understand what Steven Harper is up against.
Nice work, Ezra and Mark; you are truly Great Canadians for persevering with this on our behalf.
Several members seemed totally unprepared and quite oblivious to any of the current issues and instead held and defended the "party line" and trivialized anything you and Mark were saying.
Having so much of the questioning in French was, to a large percentage of the Canadian public, tantamount to having a partially closed hearing and just made the smokescreen that much thicker.
Only a couple of members of the committee seemed to have any grasp of the real situation and the atrocities being committed and seemed open enough to do something about it.
My gut feeling is that it would be easier to run through a vat of molasses in January than change the opinions of the majority of these members. Now I understand what Steven Harper is up against.
Nice work, Ezra and Mark; you are truly Great Canadians for persevering with this on our behalf.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at October 7, 2009 08:44 AM
