The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal: we have jurisdiction over all political discourse

Julian Porter continues to make objections to Faisal Joseph's ambush submissions of blogs and Internet comments, such as Five Feet of Fury and TVO online comments.

Porter did not receive any copies of same in advance. Again, in a real court, that would be laughed out of the court house. But this isn't a real court.

Porter made objections. He said those blogs and comments, made in mid-2008, in specific response to the CIC's own embarrassing antics, had nothing to do with a specific article published in Maclean's in late 2006. He objected to the lack of jurisdiction of the BCHRT, which doesn't cover the Internet.

But that's all legal mumbo-jumbo. The tribunal panellists didn't understand a word of it. Or, if they did, they didn't give a damn.

Because that would mean they couldn't hear more grievances, more bitching, more whining, more "my feelings were hurt!" testimony.

So all political conduct, a political discourse, is now within the tribunal's reach.

It's not just Maclean's magazine now. It's Five Feet of Fury. It's TVO.

And why the hell not?