Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant Testify Against Canada’s Human Rights Laws

October 6th, 2009 at 1:08 pm by Ezra Levant | 12 Comments |

On October 5th, Mark Steyn and I testified before the Canadian Parliament’s Justice and Human Rights Committee, in support of their investigations into the Canadian Human Rights Commission and their discredited censorship powers.

Here are YouTube videos of the whole hour.

Originally posted at EzraLevant.com

12 responses so far

1 EscapeVelocity // Oct 6, 2009 at 1:14 pm

At the UN, the Obama administration backs limits on free speech

Blasphemy, we hardly knew ye?

The Obama administration has marked its first foray into the UN human rights establishment by backing calls for limits on freedom of expression. The newly-minted American policy was rolled out at the latest session of the UN Human Rights Council, which ended in Geneva on Friday. American diplomats were there for the first time as full Council members and intent on making friends.

President Obama chose to join the Council despite the fact that the Organization of the Islamic Conference holds the balance of power and human rights abusers are among its lead actors, including China, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia. Islamic states quickly interpreted the president’s penchant for “engagement” as meaning fundamental rights were now up for grabs. Few would have predicted, however, that the shift would begin with America’s most treasured freedom.

For more than a decade, a UN resolution on the freedom of expression was shepherded through the Council, and the now defunct Commission on Human Rights which it replaced, by Canada. Over the years, Canada tried mightily to garner consensus on certain minimum standards, but the “reformed” Council changed the distribution of seats on the UN’s lead human rights body. In 2008, against the backdrop of the publication of images of Mohammed in a Danish newspaper, Cuba and various Islamic countries destroyed the consensus and rammed through an amendment which introduced a limit on any speech they claimed was an “abuse . . . [that] constitutes an act of racial or religious discrimination.”

The Obama administration decided that a revamped

freedom of expression resolution, extracted from Canadian hands, would be an ideal emblem for its new engagement policy. So it cosponsored a resolution on the subject with none other than Egypt–a country characterized by an absence of freedom of expression.

Privately, other Western governments were taken aback and watched the weeks of negotiations with dismay as it became clear that American negotiators wanted consensus at all costs.

continued…

http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/043ytrhc.asp

Europeans now last line of defense.

LOL!

Enjoy!
2 EscapeVelocity // Oct 6, 2009 at 3:26 pm

Looks like the post at New Majority on Caldwell’s Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, has disappeared.

Pretty much sums up the Orwellian world we live in.
3 BoolaBoola // Oct 6, 2009 at 3:33 pm

So I’m not allowed to engage in defamation of religion in Canada. OK, I can live with that, but may I please be allowed to engage in DEFECATION of religion?

Plop! “Oh look, it’s the Koran! In the original Arabic!”
4 joemarier // Oct 6, 2009 at 4:21 pm

EV, you can find the link on your right.
5 Fighting Against Speech Suppression « Chris Moody // Oct 6, 2009 at 4:58 pm

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6 Geoff C // Oct 6, 2009 at 5:09 pm

I watched this live online. I thought you both did a super good job.
7 EscapeVelocity // Oct 6, 2009 at 5:30 pm

Let me give you Frum’s spiel if he were Europe.

We have to recognize that whites and Christians are a declining population. Cultural opposition to the Islamification of Europe is a losing strategy. We need to embrace the reality of Muslims dominating Europe, address Muslim concerns so we can influence fiscal policy, debt management, and good governance. This angry backlash against Muslims is a terrible strrategy and will assure that the Party is in the minority, powerless to shape policy forever.

LOL!
8 EscapeVelocity // Oct 6, 2009 at 5:34 pm

Indeed Joe!

However the comments are gone.

We wouldnt want to alienate the future Muslim voting block!

LOL!
9 EscapeVelocity // Oct 6, 2009 at 6:19 pm

Look, you gays and feminists have to realize that Islam is in ascendency, quit you angry cultural fight against Islam and be happy with promoting fiscal responsibility and good governance.

Ive got you pegged Frum!
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