My column in the National Post

Today's National Post published a revised version of my blog post on Jim Pankiw's human rights ordeal. You can read it here.

Some excerpts:

If Pankiw can be prosecuted for spreading "discrimination," every MP is at risk. Not a day goes by when MPs don't offend one group or another.

...Whether or not Pankiw "wins" his trial is irrelevant. He's already lost, and so have we. The message is loud and clear: The CHRC has ended parliamentary immunity. The fact that it's a right-wing MP first in the dock is no surprise -- the CHRC is led by Jennifer Lynch, a radical feminist who was Joe Clark's chief of staff. It's unlikely that a left-wing MP would ever be punished this way -- 100% of the CHRC's "hate" targets to date have been conservative, white or Christian.

There's nothing surprising in this latest assault on our real civil rights by the rogue CHRC. It has already shown itself contemptuous of freedom of speech and freedom of religions. The only surprise is that the Harper government has let this rogue agency run amok.