Mark Steyn faces Canadian “Human Rights Tribunal”
Andrew Coynes at MacLean’s is liveblogging this farce.
Andrew Coynes at MacLean’s is liveblogging this farce.
While the left salivates here at home over the possibility of a return of the anti-Constitutional Fairness Doctrine under a Democrat administration, various Canadian “rights” commissions/groups are doing their part to stifle speech up north, as Mark Steyn explains:
I have been closely following the developing story Canada’s CTV first reported on Wednesday in which they alleged that a high-ranking official at the Canadian embassy told them that a “senior” member of the Obama campaign contacted Canadian ambassador Michael Wilson and told him not to take BO’s harsh anti-NAFTA rhetoric too seriously, that it was merely “campaign rhetoric” and that Canada shouldn’t worry. What we’ve learned since that story is that it wasn’t the Canadian embassy that was called, but instead it was a visit that was paid to the Canadian Consulate General’s office in Chicago by Obama’s senior economic advisor Austan Goolsbee.
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This is an intriguing story, to say the least:
The NY Post reports on this outrage: