Tuesday, June 23, 2009

How To Get On "The List"

Jennifer Lynch is the head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Her policies and attitudes have come under increasing scrutiny after high profile journalists such as Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn have accused the CHRC of being a kangaroo court. Now it turns out she has been keeping a list of critics. From The National Post:
"We have experienced 16 months of invective hurled at us, and at any time when anybody has tried to speak up and correct misinformation, gross distortions, caricaturizations, then the very next day there's been some full-frontal assault through the blogs, through mainstream media. I have a file. I'm sure I have 1,200, certainly several hundred of these things," she said."
According to the National Post, this list of CHRC critics will obviously include Levant and Steyn, but also such mainstream entities as the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, some Jewish advocacy groups, and also almost every newspaper editorial board in Canada. Not to mention all those bloggers...

Among the complaints against the CHRC:
"...the lack of a legal defense of truth or scholarly or journalistic intent; the practice of accepting identical complaints simultaneously in different jurisdictions; controversial online investigative procedures such as joining white supremacist discussion groups to investigate targets; and the potential for human rights tribunals to be hijacked as political platforms."