John Oakley show

Tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at 7:10 a.m. Eastern Time I'll be on John Oakley's popular Toronto morning show. We'll be talking about this insane case: the Ontario Human Rights Commission is intervening in a criminal case, demanding that a witness not be required to remove her Islamic veil when testifying.

This is a pretty simple one to me: it's not about the witness's "right" to obscure her face; it's about the accused mens' right to be able to observe their accuser, and the judge's ability to see her demeanour, too.

Is she shifty-eyed? Is she a bad liar? Is she fidgety, blinking, sweating, darting her eyes around? Or is she resolved, credible, sure, and confident?

It's not about her. It's about the credibility of her testimony. And that's important because two mens' lives are being held in the balance.

Of course the OHRC thinks her "right" to hide her face trumps their right to a fair trial. Because the OHRC doesn't give a damn about fair trials -- they're not about justice, they're about political correctness, ethnic grievances, and make-work projects for radical lawyers and bureaucrats.

That's bad enough, having spread throughout the kangaroo courts of the land. But now the OHRC is trying to export that rot into the real legal system.

It's awful, but I think it's an overreach -- I think it's just the latest outrage from the HRCs that is pushing normal Canadians too far.

Tune in -- and call in, if you can.