The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) has once again tarnished academia’s perception of Canada, and they didn’t even do anything this time.
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is planning on holding its next annual conference in Toronto, but a number of its members are launching a petition to the APSA calling for it to be relocated because of the CHRC’s persecution of those practicing freedom of speech. They’re afraid that human rights complaints will be taken to the CHRC, as was the case when Macleans printed a controversial Mark Steyn article, and when Ezra Levant published the Danish Mohamed cartoons. The word irony doesn’t even do justice to the absurdity of a commission designed to stand for human rights standing stridently against one of the most fundamental human rights.
The petition is gaining strong support among APSA members because they, if anyone, know that freedom of expression is necessary for intellectual discussion. Without it, we leave some of the most pressing issues unaddressed, especially ones endemic to much of the APSA’s contemporary discussion – that is, the growing threat of Islamic terrorism and the Muslim world’s neglect to effectively challenge it – a topic that both Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant were martyred for.
So once again, the CHRC has embarrassed Canada. One would think that something that stands against itself would self-destruct. Lets hope that this happens soon enough.
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