Those of us who know that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has been used to take the country down the wrong, destructive, direction also have been concerned as to how the Human Rights Tribunals/Commissions have been punishing people when no laws were broken.
Ezra Levant is now taking on the Alberta “Human Rights” Commission and I want to come out and say I support what he is doing.
If you want to live in a country where you are free to think without a lawsuit, you need to pay attention to what is going on in Canada’s Kangaroo Courts.
Our rights are being defended.
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I don’t know if you can blame the charter. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not endorse Human Rights Commissions in any way. That’s just misleading.
In fact, Section 2 of the Charter would seem to preclude the legality of the commissions. They are able to find legitimacy through the murky (and dangerous) grey-area enabled by Section 1 that proclaims that all the rights in the charter can be limited if such limitations are “demonstrably justifiable in a free and democratic society”.
Many people such as myself, find that particular line quite dangerous as the meaning is purely subjective.
I didn’t say the charter endorsed the commissions. I said the charter was used to take the country down the wrong, destructive direction.
The Charter was the first step, the commissions are the second as they give unelected bureaucrats the ability to play judge, jury and executioner.
“The Charter was the first step, the commissions are the second as they give unelected bureaucrats the ability to play judge, jury and executioner.”
… except for that pesky fact that the Commissions came first.
I won’t call you wrong, KC, but explain please how a commission to enforce charter rights didn’t then exist came to be.
“I didn’t say the charter endorsed the commissions. I said the charter was used to take the country down the wrong, destructive direction.”
Explain further. You disagree with the provisions laid forth in Section 2 of the Charter?
It is not the charter itself but the way it is being used. I agree with much of the charter but the way it is interpreted by our courts is concerning. Unfortunately, because the charter works as a veto against new laws (and old,) the Courts have been able to tear apart the moral fabric of our society.
“the Courts have been able to tear apart the moral fabric of our society”
What moral fabric is that?