Ezra Levant talks about
the human rights commission
Ezra Levant is an author, journalist, lawyer and former publisher of the Western Standard. For 900 days he fought the Human Rights Commission because he published a story about the Danish cartoons of Mohammad. He became the only person in the world to face legal sanction for printing those cartoons. He was eventually acquitted, but was left with $100,000 in legal fees.
Ezra is coming to Toronto on September 26 to talk about his inquisition and other abuses by the provincial and federal human rights commissions. See details below.
As a result of this nightmare, Ezra Levant began investigating other instances in which innocent people have had their freedoms compromised by bureaucrats presuming to protect Canadians’ human rights. He discovered some disturbing and even bizarre cases, such as the tribunal ruling that an employee at a McDonald’s restaurant in Vancouver did not have to wash her hands at work. And the human rights complaint filed by a Calgary hair stylist against the women at a salon school who called him a “loser.” In another case that seemed stranger than fiction, an emotionally unstable transvestite fought for — and won — the right to counsel female rape victims, despite the anguished pleas of those same traumatized victims. Human rights commissions now monitor political opinions, fine people for expressing politically incorrect viewpoints, censor websites, and even ban people, permanently, from saying certain things.
His book, Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights is a result of Levant’s ordeal and the research it inspired. It shows how our concept of human rights has morphed into something dangerous and drastically different from its original meaning. Shakedown is a convincing plea to Canadians to reclaim their basic liberties. It will be on sale at the venue and Ezra will be available for a short time after his presentation to autograph his book.
To see several videos of Ezra Levant on YouTube, click
here.
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Saturday, September 26, 2009, 6:30 to 8:30 PM
University of Toronto, St. George Campus |
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The Queen's Park subway station is closest to the venue.
Metered parking is available across the street, on the north side of Galbraith Road (after 5:00 PM).