Add free speech to the Toronto Star’s list of American crime

[styky]

I did a search and it appears we missed this article earlier in the week.


Gerry Nicholls: Add free speech to the Toronto Star’s list of American crimes

Gerry Nicholls, National Post Jun 20, 2012 – 10:59 AM ET | Last Updated: Jun 20, 2012 11:51 AM ET
The Toronto Star’s Haroon Siddiqui recently came up with a baffling argument to defend Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

Section 13, of course, is the controversial law which gives the Canadian Human Rights Commission the legal right to annoy Ezra Levant.

But that’s not all. Lots of people also believe Section 13 has empowered government bureaucrats to undemocratically censor free speech. See here and here and here.

But this doesn’t faze Siddiqui who recently wrote – and this is the baffling part — that anyone who opposes Section 13 must be an advocate of “American-style free speech”. Here’s the phrase in its full context:.................http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/201 ... an-crimes/

[Kate Shaw]

Isn't a sad thing that here in We're Not America, the only reason we're given for something being forbidden to us is "The Americans Do It!"?

Shouldn't we have grown up past the age of 14 by now?

[RadicallyLiberal]

Having read Siddiqui infrequently, it seems he was waging multiple wars on logic and grammar as well as free speech.

Another reason on my long list to love Michael Coren was his comments on radio a decade or so ago about Haroon being incoherent and a horrible writer.