HRCs are chipping away at our international reputation
Here is an Op-Ed in the Jerusalem Post. It's about Barack Obama. But the writer makes a small point in passing:
Free speech is better protected in the US today than in Europe or Canada, where various human rights councils have stifled free political speech in the name of "cultural sensitivity."
It's just a quick comment, almost a throw-away line. And that's the point. To foreign observers, it's no longer controversial or shocking to note how our human rights commissions (the writer calls them councils) have eroded our freedoms. It's something to note in passing. It's conventional wisdom now. It's part of Canada's identity of being less-than-free. It's the new, embarrassing normal.
We've got to change that.
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