A preview of his own trial

Paul Schneidereit has another column pounding away at the insanity of Canada's human rights commissions, and their arrogant designs to be the government's official arbiters of what can and can't be published. An excerpt:

Observers have noted the B.C. Human Rights Code also provides for mandatory injunctions against repetitions of actions found out of bounds by the tribunal. That presumably means that if the tribunal finds against Maclean’s, the magazine will be prohibited from again publishing articles similar to Steyn’s in future. That’s a hefty – and subjective – censorship blanket the CIC’s call for "fairness" could provoke.

If HRCs think they can order a Christian pastor to publicly renounce his most deeply-held beliefs, what would stop them from ordering Maclean's to print some Islamofascist propaganda, too?

I wish that every journalist in the country could have attended that show trial in Vancouver. They would have been repelled by every sight: the hustlers and hucksters of the Canadian Islamic Congress, looking to hijack a private magazine; three radical activists sitting on the dais, as if they were some real judges; the hourly abuse of natural justice. I left there revolted; had I not had the real-time outlet of live-blogging, I think I would have either shouted out loud or vomited.

Oh well. Schneidereit will have his chance to watch such a kangaroo court first-hand, soon enough. They're coming for him now -- or at least his newspaper, the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, the largest newspaper in the Atlantic, and one of the most respected. But that doesn't matter; all that matters is that some thin-skinned complainer has complained about them. (Surprise! It's a jihadist!) I hate that his paper will now have to spend tens of thousands of dollars fighting this shake-down. But, on the other hand, I'm not sure how many more show trials can happen, with the wall-to-wall coverage that Steyn's received, before severely normal Canadians take to the streets in protest.