Washington Times reports on proposed Parliamentary review of CHRC

Tomorrow's Washington Times continues their series on Canada's abusive and corrupt human rights commissions. This time, it's to report on the Conservative government's tentative first steps to review the CHRC's operations and its prosecution of "hate speech". An excerpt:

The filing is a change of heart for Mr. Nicholson and the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In May, Mr. Nicholson's office filed a 50-page legal submission in support of the commission's attempt to stop a defendant from cross-examining the commission's investigators on their tactics. The submission also praised the work of Canada's human rights commissions and tribunals.

News of the submission led to Mr. Nicholson and Mr. Harper drawing heavy criticism, and many conservative and civil-liberties groups had threatened to boycott the Conservative Party's fundraising efforts despite the possibility of a summer election.

Unless I've missed it, I haven't seen the Conservative motion reported anywhere in Canada, other than in the St. Catharines newspaper, hometown to the MP, Rick Dykstra, who moved the motion.

The motion has not yet been adopted by the Justice Committee, since that committee hasn't had a vote in weeks. But I do think it's newsworthy, as the Times does, that Nicholson has abandoned his earlier posture of stonewalling, and is now calling for a review. I hope other Canadian newspapers pick up on the story.