Repeal of Section 13 leaves only Criminal Code to deal with hate speech

[CHIMO]

We are so used to Stephen Harper breaking his promises that few Canadians noticed his most recent flip-flop.

The Conservatives in the House of Commons have axed the anti-hate provision of the Canadian Human Rights Act, even though in 2009 he intimated the exact opposite.

He had been asked if he was going to get rid of Section 13, which prohibits exposing a person or a people to hatred or contempt on grounds of race, religion or ethnic origin. His answer was emphatic: “The government has no plans to do so.”

Nor did he signal during last year’s election that he was revising his plans.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1211070--repeal-of-section-13-leaves-only-criminal-code-to-deal-with-hate-speech

[teddy51]

1. As Harper said shortly after his win of a majority Government, "You won't recognize Canada in four

years". No truer words have been spoken! I am pretty certain that Harper will be a one term Govt.

So any, and all of you dumb fuck's that voted for him, you got what you paid for.

[canuckledragger]

6. I voted NDP...

..& I LOVE the shellacking they gave to the Liberal & Bloc-Quebecois parties!

I still think we would have taken the conservatives out as well if it wasn't for election fraud like the robocall biz

[murphyj87]

2. I have emailed the Canadian Bar Association,

which has publicly stated that it considers this bill a threat to human rights in Canada, and an open invitation to antiSemitism, White Supremacism, Neo Naziism, and tacit approval of hate speech, to file suit against the Harper Government®™, and to take it to the Supreme Court of Canada, if necessary, to have this bill struck down as unconstitutional and contrary to the moral beliefs of the People of Canada.

[RC]

3. If only we had people with backbone, such as that, in this country.

[canuckledragger]

7. there's a reason why it's an 'open invitation' to hate groups

http://canadianawareness.org/2012/02/stephen-harper-linked-to-nazi-intellectuals-and-christian-fundamentalists/

Mr. Harrison documents in the book entitled Of Passionate Intensity, that Prime Minister Stephen Harper was a member of the ultra-right wing Northern Foundation in 1989. Mr. Harrison documents that this Foundation was comprised of Neo-Nazi social Darwinist intellectuals.

When Stephen Harper was a member of the ultra-right-wing Northern Foundation in 1989, Mr. Harrison documents that this was a group that had numerous Neo-Nazi skinheads as organizers, as well as a leadership that included a well-known white supremacist and anti-feminist crusader as a prominent leader that sought to take over the mass-media to enable the fulfillment of a right wing agenda.

The Northern Foundation, with the support of corporate allies was able to get Mr. Harper elected in the first place by indeed, taking over the mass-media in Canada. This was done to shelter Mr. Harper from the kinds of critical journalism which had kept him out of power, in the first place. Corporate mass-media owners would seek to remake Mr. Harper and the Conservative Party from being ultra right, into a fabricated image of a non-threatening “moderately conservative” party.

[mr_liberal]

4. Good. It should be axed.

Hate speech laws are censorship.

[Canuckistanian]

5. White supremacists are celebrating this

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/06/08/bill-c-304-hate-speech-tories_n_1581437.html