We read:
"It appears Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act will be repealed now that we have a majority Conservative government in Ottawa. That’s a censorship law making it illegal to use the Internet to communicate hate speech.
While no reasonable person is in favour of hate speech, Section 13 has several fatal flaws. Its application is subjective — where do you draw the line between legitimate, albeit crude, opinion and intolerable hate speech?
There’s no defence of truth or fair comment.
Decisions are rendered by so-called human-rights experts, rather than judges, using very relaxed rules of evidence.
Anybody who feels offended by the communication may file a complaint and initiate proceedings.
Advocates of free speech have been pushing for the repeal of Section 13 for years and Professor Richard Moon, a human-rights expert, recommended its repeal in his 2008 Report to the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
But it’s no time for celebration by free-speech advocates. Not while Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories each have a similar law in their human-rights codes.
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