...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad

More like slithering: An editorial in the Vancouver Province decries the “creeping totalitarianism” of the HRCs:

…(F)ree speech is significantly endangered by the growing body of "unchallenged precedent that has been accumulated by an agenda-driven HRC system." Canadians are becoming unsure of what they can and what they can and cannot say, he adds. And debate on key issues of public policy has been chilled.

(Nigel) Hannaford, currently a Calgary Herald columnist, believes the commissions should be shut down and those functions of theirs that remain useful to society be transferred to the regular court system.

Failing that, human-rights codes should be amended to include at the least "common law defences such as truth and fair comment." Hannaford says it is up to Ottawa to take the lead.

We agree. Human-rights commissions were supposed to protect humans' rights -- not trample all over them.

And since, the way it’s turned out, they aren’t “protecting” rights but are revoking freedom, the solution is to trample all over them.

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