Aw nuts, we won

Don’t take this lying down. McLean’s should sue for damages or appeal(if even possible) Don’t let it go.

Horny Toad

Peter O’Donnell observes that this complaint should have been tossed on the first day of hearing. Actually, I think it should have been dismissed before that. And I think the panel agrees with me.
At paras. 8-12 of the decision, they make some interesting observations, which, in the interest of brevity, I will summarize:
1. Since changes to the Code in 2003, all complaints that involve more than conjecture or speculation are set down for hearing;
2. The HRT doesn’t initiate or investigate complaints and won’t dismiss a complaint without hearing from both parties, usually following an application by the respondent
3. Respondents can apply to dismiss a complaint before hearing on grounds set out in s. 27, which grounds include that there is no reasonable prospect that the complaint will succeed; and
4. For some reason, Macleans made no such application. Instead, they filed a defence that sounds a lot like a defence in defamation action, citing fair comments, truth and qualified privilege

I can’t imagine that Julian Porter and Roger McConchie, Macleans counsel and deans of the defamation bar, find procedures at the HRT so confusing that they have to fall back on their old libel pleadings. But maybe that was the problem. Or maybe Macleans instructed them to run this thing, even it if could be dismissed.
Care to comment Andrew?

Islam is more than a religion. It is also a political ideology. Should we pretend that, say, liberals who harshly criticize conservatives are responsible for potential employment discrimination against members of that party? We should stop pretending that political Islam can be used as a club to attack political opponents.

In other words, we should talk more, and not less, about this ideology, and allow ourselves to have a conversation about it without immediately attracting the vicious attacks that questioning that sacred cow always seems to inspire.

The Canadian Islamic Congress is member of the Muslim World League headquartered in Mecca.(link below, the CIC is listed under Waterloo). The League has hundreds of members (mosques, cultural centers, etc.) in Canada (everywhere except Nunavut). The mission of the League is to spread Sharia and salafism around the world.

Suppose that during the Cold War, Moscow was funding hundreds of “cultural centers” around the world tasked with spreading the communist ideology. As a Canadian, I would have been a LOT more worried about this threat than about the prospect that fellow Canadians of Russian extraction could face employment discrimination if writers and journalists were discussing this political danger.

http://www.mwlcanada.org/home/pon.htm

Paul Secam thinks the use of ‘muzzie’ is an indication of being a bigot. I assume the same applies to the us of ‘yanks’, ‘limeys’, ‘frogs’, ‘krauts’, ‘micks’ etc

“Muzzie”, like “K*ke” or “n**r”, is an offensive term that you wouldn’t normally expect to see in a mainstream newsmagazine. I would hope that editors here will excercise their judgement and not print derogatory epithets in their pages in the future.

(Steyn, as Kinsella has documented, has a history of using terms like “muzzie” or “chink” in a derogatory fashion. To me, that’s casual bigotry. You mileage may vary.)

Annie — I agree with you. Use of those terms in a derogatory fashion is gratuitously offensive.

Having won their own ‘fight’ I hope MacLean’s won’t give up leading the ‘charge’ to rid the country of such unaccountable authority groups.

Ti-Guy,
When HR commissions arrogate themselves the power to control the press, they lose the right to be called “institutions of democracy”. They become the Inquisition and undermine democracy.

CIC c. Maclean’s is about freedom of the press. It is certainly the duty of the press to defend that freedom against the Inquisition. I hope Maclean’s will lead the fight until full and final triumph.

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