Freedom of speech in Canada: Combatting offensive speech, Alan Borovoy, Part 3

[JanetofCambridge]

As a person who was born in Canada back in the 40s I can tell you that I'm an eye witness to the death of this country. My grandfather didn't die during the war so we would turn around and give the country to the third world, or to have our basic right to free speech stripped from us. Canada has no hopes of ever being the country it once was, which is why I'm moving to Costa Rica in February of 2013 to retire.

[neilf72]

Very engaging speaker, great personality, bang-on with regards to freedom of speech, impossible not to like the man. But he clings to the notion that we badly need "Human Rights Commissions" in Canada in 2008, with no evidence that they are necessary. Like every knee-jerk liberal, his solution to the failed concept is to keep tweaking, to never surrender the utopia in his brain that will redeem the world if only you dumb plebes will finally listen. Some people never can say, "I was wrong".

[tdottim]

While the HRCs in Canada have been a textbook case of abuse of power, Borovoy is right IMO that there still needs to be protection for people from actual discrimination (as opposed to hurt feelings from reading something you disagree with), but the current HRCs seem completely infested with petty bureaucrats with agendas and a thirst for imposing their own narrow values on the rest of us. I think we need to shut down these HRCs completely and start over with a much smaller framework.

[Geographer76]

It's very funny that these types of idiots want us to combat offensive speach by group attack, they seem intent on defending and protecting the offended...unless the offended person disagrees with this group. Like the "Right Wing" of Society.

What happened to being "all inclusive"? Being "inclusive", mean everyone, including the offenders.