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How Canada's Leftist establishment has destroyed free speech in Canada -- and threatened our own liberties in the process
The Tyranny of Nice: How Canada Crushes Freedom In the Name of Human Rights (And Why It Matters to Americans)
by Kathy Shaidle and Pete Vere
Canada, long one of the freest societies on earth, has
taken a jackhammer to the cornerstones of a free society:
freedom of expression, freedom of ideas, freedom of belief,
freedom to engage in the whole messy rough and tumble of
vigorous debate that distinguishes open societies from
lesser, stunted, insecure ones. In The Tyranny of Nice: How
Canada Crushes Freedom In the Name of Human Rights (And Why
It Matters to Americans), Kathy Shaidle and Pete Vere
detail how Canadian authorities are determined to enforce a
dubious, politically correct government-mandated "niceness"
-- trampling upon Canadians' hard-won freedoms and erecting
a bloated bureaucracy to enforce the ideological
straitjacket they have now fashioned for their citizens.
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Vere and Shaidle trace the destruction of freedom of
speech in Canada in several landmark cases. They reveal the
shameful details of the prosecution of magazine publisher
Ezra Levant for reprinting the notorious Danish cartoons of
the Islamic prophet Muhammad; of two Christian pastors for
daring to express age-old Christian beliefs; and of Mark
Steyn, the bestselling author of America Alone, for true
and accurate statements that were reprinted in Maclean's
magazine. (Steyn contributes an illuminating and engaging
introduction to this book.) Shaidle and Vere explain how
Canadian officials are bent on promoting a laundry list of
fake, politically correct "human rights," no matter how
absurd: the British Columbia "Human Rights" Tribunal even
prosecuted a Toronto stand-up comic who allegedly deprived
two lesbians of their "human rights" by responding to their
heckles during his club act!
What's more, Vere and Shaidle demonstrate that in
destroying Canadians' freedoms, Canadian officials used the
same kind of "hate speech" laws that many Leftists are now
promoting in the United States -- making The Tyranny of Nice
an object lesson for what could all too easily happen here.
In fact, it's already happening here: Vere and Shaidle
discuss how the New Mexico Human Rights Commission recently
fined Elaine Huguenin, an evangelical Christian
photographer, $6,600 for declining to photograph a same-sex
commitment ceremony between two lesbians.
How freedom died in Canada -- and could die in America:
- Canada's "human rights" commissions: how they were
originally created to deal with employment and housing
discrimination -- but soon expanded the definition of
"human rights" to cover any breach of politically correct
orthodoxy
- The Canadian Islamic Congress: how it took advantage of
Canada's laws against "hate speech" to try to suppress
all honest discussion of the Islamic jihad threat
- The "human rights" double standard: how the president of
the Canadian Islamic Congress made a rather questionable
complainant in a "hate speech" case, considering his
notorious 2004 statement that all Israeli citizens over
age 18 were legitimate targets for murder
- How the British Columbia "Human Rights" Tribunal
prosecuted Mark Steyn for "Islamophobia" even though the
plaintiffs did not challenge the accuracy of a single
fact, statistic or quotation in what he had written
- Ezra Levant: how he videotaped his own coerced testimony
before a "human rights" tribunal and posted it on YouTube
-- leading to a storm of outrage and press coverage of
the death of free speech in Canada
- The notorious case that showed just how badly Canadian
government commissions and tribunals have stacked the
deck against those who stand accused -- however falsely --
of promoting hate
- The many ridiculous cases that have come before Canada's
Human Rights Commissions -- including the $50,000 award
given to a former McDonald's employee after the
restaurant dismissed her for failing to abide by its
policy requiring employees to wash their hands before
handling food!
- Why the tolerance and multiculturalism that Canadian and
American elites value so much more than they value free
speech cannot actually prosper without the protection of
outside of democratic freedoms and civil liberties
- How the restriction of speech that isn't politically
correct could lead to violence -- and how the Leftist
Canadian elites are blind to this sinister prospect
- Why Americans must resist recent efforts to expand the
power of "human rights" commissions here
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