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Canadian freedom of speech seen by Australia as a joke

The Australian

Canada’s deadly tongue trap

James Allan | June 06, 2008

HERE is a little known fact about Canada. It is today a country where you can say or write things that are true and yet still be brought before a tribunal.

That tribunal can fine you; it can order you to pay money to the people who complained about your words; it can force you to issue an apology; it can do all three.

That’s not all, though. The people who complained will not need to hire a lawyer.

Their costs will be picked up by the state, by the taxpayers.

You, on the other hand, will have to hire a lawyer to defend yourself. And there will be no award of costs at the end, so that even if you win, you will still be out of pocket to your lawyers tens of thousands of dollars.

Of course, you will not win.

Why? Because in the entire history of these Canadian tribunals, hearing these cases, those people like you who have been hauled before these tribunals have never won - not one single time.

The complainants always win.

This amazing inroad into free speech will surely come as a surprise to most Australians, not least because in so many ways Canada is the country closest to ours in terms of constitutional and democratic history….(Full Story)

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James Allan’s article describes a Canadian institution for censoring of the truth with the full and totalitarian power of judicial bureaucrats. A Canadian human rights tribunal brought the Report Newsmagazine to its knees and heavily contributed to causing it to stop publishing. Here is Link Byfield’s reaction to the 2002 decision by the Alberta Human Rights Commission against the Report Newsmagazine. Link Byfield’s public response to the Alberta Human Rights Commission should, more accurately, be called a farewell to freedom of speech in Canada.

Incidentally, Ezra Levant took over where the Report Newsmagazine left off. His newsmagazine Western Standard (now also no longer published) had filled the niche left by the Report Newsmagazine. However, as of now the Western Standard’s website and shotgun-blog are still alive and well.

Pro-fathers demonstration in Poland, 2008 05 25

Hello Ulf,

If you were by any chance at the Warsaw pro-father demonstration, you could not have helped observing what the photos you sent appear to indicate, that not only were there few participants but also few spectators.

I don’t know whether that pro-father demonstration was the very first one in Poland. Future demonstrations will quite likely be somewhat bigger, but - just as wherever such demonstrations took place - never impressively large.

I hope that no one will be turned off by that. Help is already underway from a direction in which few fathers rights activists show little and mostly no interest. The help comes from pro-family rights organizations such as the World Congress on Families.

It makes sense, doesn’t it? When the family is strengthened, the fathers’ role is strengthened, and there is no possible way to strengthen the family without strengthening the fathers’ role. Did you ever wonder why virtually no fathers rights activists have any interest in promoting or connecting with pro-family organizations?

Here is another issue connected with that. Pro-family organizations have a great interest in it, and fathers right organizations do not. Doesn’t that make you wonder why that is? Oh, the issue? It is the very real and escalating depopulation of the world. Search the Internet for the term “demographic winter”. Incidentally, here is an article that summarizes the issues of the demographic winter that result from the trend to depopulate the world.

Why don’t fathers rights organization participate in the growing trend to stop and counteract the population implosion? The solution, the strengthening of the family, will also solve the problem of the escalating abrogation of fathers’ rights.

All the best,

Walter

By the way, the last international congress of the World Congress of Families (the largest ever, so far, with about 6,000 people from all over the world attending) took place in 2007, in Warsaw, Poland.

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