A4NoOb, welcome to the forum.
Haha thank you.
Sure Mark Steyn was sued (or more accurately, I think there was a complaint lodged with the Human Rights Tribunal against him). The Islamists who launched the complaint had a perfect right to do so. Anybody can sue anybody else; anybody can make a complaint to Human Rights Tribunal.
However, Steyn (or MacLean’s) was not convicted of hate crime, or of any human rights violations, the complaint went nowhere.
However the Human Rights Tribunal has government funding, which is completely inexcusable considering the level of harassment the Human Rights Gestapo has made against controversial people like Mark Steyn. So while the court fees for Steyn come out of his own pocket, the Human Rights Gestapo endures no financial burden (in fact, us tax payers are the ones paying for their court cases -____-). An extremity of this would be Ezra Levant who grossed a total of $100, 000 of legal fees to put off the Human Rights Tribunal.
This is one instance where I agree with the hate crime provision, the holocaust denier, Zundel deserved to be convicted.
Then you contradicted your initial statement.
I am not familiar with this case, who was exiled from Canada? Was he/she a Canadian citizen? If so, how can he be exiled? Was it a religious right member from USA stirring up trouble here in Canada? Then he deserved to be kicked out.
Could you give more details about the case, I am not familiar with it. Anyway, it is nonsense to say that they were exiled, Canadian citizens cannot be exiled form Canada.
I never meant to imply that these were Canadian citizens. The point is freedom of speech in Canada has a definite line; and that would be being politically incorrect. It is the principle of exiling people for their opinions which makes Canada far less free than you depict it.
Again, I am not familiar with this case either, who was convicted? For what crime? Do you have a web link to this? Give a web page reference please.
Terry Tremaine and Glenn Bahr come to mind. They inconspicuously posted on American cites (stormfront) and were raided and convicted from Internet access (along with fees). At least they weren't sent to jail like Bill Noble who can enjoy four months of prison thanks to our erroneous free speech laws. To be more specific he was accounted for violating the Criminal Code section against wilful promotion of hatred.
You really haven’t made you case. As far as I can see, freedom of speech is strong and sacrosanct in Canada.
Would you like me to go on? I would gladly give you more examples if you want.
For example Brad Love being sent to jail for letters sent to politicians and parole regiments forbidding him to write any letters to politicians for three years. Tom Winnicki was sentenced to probation to cease posting "hateful messages" on the Internet and later convicted for nine months in prison for violating his probation. Famous Paul Fromm was fired from being a high school teacher for his "hateful opinions" within his private abode. Paul was later convicted for $30, 000 in a libel case concerning scandalous Richard Warman.
The Ontario Government has spent $200, 000 in order to keep the political police active in censorship. People like Alexan Kulbashian, Jessica Beaumont, Carian Donnelly were raided by the police for "discrimination against persons or groups of persons on the basis of religion, sexual orientation, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, and disability, by repeatedly communicating messages through an Internet website." James Keegstra was charged for hate-speech and fired from his position of public school teaching. If you want more examples please, don't hesitate to ask.
Recently you may be aware that a prominent Native Indian leader was acquitted of charges of being a holocaust denier and being anti-Semitic. Courts held that his anti-Jewish utterances did not amount to hate.
Hardly anybody is ever convicted under hate crime legislation, though there may have been a few prosecutions.
If this is not evidence for the racism in our Liberal- Appointed Justice System, then I can say Canada is beyond help. Here we have a Native Indian Leader, a minority, who is accused of charges much worse than Ernst Zundel, and he is acquitted. To quote from the Liberal Toronto Star, he "blamed Jews for causing World War II, called them a 'disease', and suggested Hitler was justified in launching the Holocaust." How do we compare this to Ernst Zundel who merely questioned the number of Jews slaughtered? There is a clear bias in our Canadian Justice System. Not everyone is equal under the law, minorities have an exemplary status.