Calgary Sun | 13Jun2011| Orest Slepokura
http://www.calgarysun.com/2011/06/13/letters-to-the-editor-for-june-13
Free Speech all Smoke
(Re: “Price of free speech,” Michael Coren) Years ago, bureaucrats who
run Canada’s human rights industry decided the way to ensure a 100%
conviction rate was to divorce cause from effect and focus on the
latter. Since then, free speech in Canada has been reduced to a
schoolyard where monitors catch and punish some expressions of
offensive speech, while others are winked at. Our free speech is simply
what our betters will let us rubes get away with. Any theoretical claim
to freedom of expression as enshrined in the Charter of Rights is just
smoke.
Orest Slepokura
Strathmore
(Commissions shouldn’t
be policing hurt feelings.)