Mark Steyn wins first of two…
The Canadian Human Rights Commission has dismissed a Muslim group’s complaint against Maclean’s magazine.The Canadian Islamic Congress had argued the magazine published an article in October 2006 that would likely expose Muslims to hatred and contempt.
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While commentators have said Steyn’s demographic claims are way off-base (wtf?!), the CHRC concluded the views in the article, “when considered as a whole and in context, are not of an extreme nature, as defined by the Supreme Court.”
source: CTV news
Emphasis added by me, if you hadn’t noticed. Hehehehehe. That’s the work of CTV’s news staff. I guess you could call that “balanced reporting”. Or something…
As Maclean’s declared on Friday: “No human rights commission, whether at the federal or provincial level, has the mandate or the expertise to monitor, inquire into, or assess the editorial decisions of the nation’s media.”
source: National Post commentary
Exactly. Let’s leave it at that.
This was the Canadian HRC, there’s still the BC HRC to…do whatever it is they do.