Canadas Star Chamber and Mark Steyn

Well what do you know the National Canadian “Human Rights” Commission has declined to prosecute a “hate speech” allegation against columnist and author Mark Steyn and the magazine Maclean’s.”

This is excellent news in light of the FACT that in the thirty year existence of the Canadian Human Rights Commission not a single person has ever won a case before ANY Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

What kind of “progressive” democracy boasts a 100% conviction rate — for ANY offence? I wonder how many Canadian journalists have been brought in front of the NCHR for hate speech against Americans. Or does it depend on which P.C. group you hate…mpress

By Ezra Levant
The Canadian Human Rights Commission, like any petty tyranny, has a strong instinct for survival. As I predicted last week on the Michael Coren Show, that instinct would cause them to drop the complaint against Mark Steyn and Maclean’s. And so they did.

With an RCMP investigation, a Privacy Commission investigation and a pending Parliamentary investigation, they’re already fighting a multi-front P.R. war, and losing badly. Not a day goes by when the CHRC isn’t pummelled in the media. Holding a show trial of Maclean’s and Steyn, like the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal did earlier this month, would be writing their own political death sentence.

So they blinked. Against everything in their DNA, they let Maclean’s go. That’s the first smart thing they’ve done; because the sooner they can get the public scrutiny to go away, the sooner they can go about prosecuting their less well-heeled targets, people who can’t afford Canada’s best lawyers and command the attention and affection of the country’s literati.

“There’s nothing to see here, people! So turn your TV cameras off, and let us continue on our work without your scrutiny! We promise not to target famous Canadians — at least not for a little while. We’ll keep picking on under-lawyered weaklings. We’ll continue to build up our jurisprudence, continue our 100% conviction rate, continue building legal precedents. So when we come for Maclean’s next time, we won’t have to blink.”