Pam Geller Banned From U.K.

Pam Geller has been banned from the U.K. for espousing views not "conducive to the public good".  She is, let us just say, chuffed, and her Canuck supporters overfoam with hatred and rage.   Here's part of the letter  Ms. Geller received:

A bit of a local angle to this story.  Pam hit town last month.  Tried to anyway.  Her engagement at the Chabad Flamingo synagogue in Thornhill got cancelled due to pressure from various quarters and she wound up performing at the T.O. Zionist Center before a crowd of the usuals.  A number of people within the GTA Jewish community, including Bernie Farber and the Toronto Board of Rabbis, condemned her appearance, and took heck for it on the blogs and on Sun TV and elsewhere.  That the UK home office has adopted a similar opinion of Ms. Geller's writing and behavior has got to be seen as sweet vindication for these folks.

PS.  I'm getting mixed signals on the fate of C-304, but  indications are that it has passed and the hate speech provision of the Canadian Human Rights Act is, for the time-being, dead.  But of course, it has recently been declared (yet again) constitutional, and resurrecting it under a Trudeau government would therefore be a snap.  Remember, Harper's gang was too frightened of this issue to put forward an official government bill and instead snuck it in as a PMB so as to avoid scrutiny.  The only people in support of C-304 are nazis, nuts, teenage libertarians, and journalists, and as a political coalition, this is one most MPS will want to run away from screaming.  The CPC won't put up a fight if S-13 or something similar resurrected in the light of day.  Meanwhile, haters will have to be pursued via the criminal code.  Ask Arthur Topham what that's like.

Tory Appointees Move To Muscle Bill C-304 Through Senate

The link is to Marc Lemire's site (one-time leader of the white supremacist Heritage Front), so you may not want to click though, but what he's saying sounds right: the Senate Tories are no longer allowing their Liberal counter-parts to adjourn debate on Bill C-304.  By the end of the month, it may be a little bit easier to spread Hate in Canada.  A gift to the Tory base in time for their summer convention.

PS.  Although in the next day's Hansard (18th) Senator Lovelace Nicholas successfully adjourns debate again!  Maybe this will get dragged out longer than Marc seems to think.

Bill C-304: The Final Battle?

LeBreton confirms #SenCA will sit into July if necessary to pass bills on order paper, including C-377. #cdnpoIi
— Jordan Press (@jordan_press) June 18, 2013

The other bill they want to pass is C-304, which would strip section 13 (the hate speech clause) from the Canadian Human Rights Act.  When Senate Leader Marjory LeBreton first suggested the possibility of an extension, James Cowan suggested that the Liberal minority would fight if the Tories brought  in closure or time allocation.  If he's serious, I'm pretty sure the Libs up there can stall this one past the end of session.  Then, assuming parliament gets prorogued (as everyone seems to think), the bill goes back to the back of the Queue. Hey presto!  Stalled for another year or three!   Lets see what kind of resistance our lads and lasses are willing to put up.

Whither Bill C-304?

With Senator Doug Finley's passing, Bill C-304, the Harper government's attempt to repeal Canada's hate speech legislation, has lost its Senate champion.  The bill was already stalled in the upper chamber.  I wonder if these latest sad events will further impede its progress.

Your Daily Nazi: Help Save Canada's Hate Speech Law!

If you missed reading through one the links in my last post, the Harper Tories are trying to force Bill C-304 (which would repeal the hate-speech provision in the Canadian Human Rights Act) through the Senate before their late June convention so they can toss some red meat to the mouth breathers and prorogue parliament.  It is imperative that the Liberal Senators not allow this, even if it means sitting into July or later.  A prorogation could push back the bill's passage another year or two.  It would be interesting to have the gov's "soft on hate crimes"  record available  for the 2015 election.

Bill C-304 Up For Debate?

According to this site, Storseth's private member's bill to repeal Section 13 (the hate-speech provision) of the Canadian Human Rights Act was debated again in the HOC yesterday.  Not a single other mention of it in the MSM that I can find.  The gov. and press are sure keeping this on the down-low. I suspect because they realize that legislation that both weakens press accountability and strengthens the hands of hate-groups would prove not-so-popular if given a lot of exposure.

PS.  Indeed it was debated yesterday.

New Government Hate Crime Initiatives Will Outlaw Linking To Hate Speech

 Joe Brean is usually careful about these stories, so though I don't see where anyone in the gov. has said this explicitly, I will assume he's got it right re the criminal code enhancements that will offset the repeal of Section 13 of the CHRA:

One of the Criminal Code enhancements Mr. Nicholson referred to is a minor tweak to the criminal laws against wilful promotion of hatred and public incitement of hatred, clarifying that “communicating” means communicating by any means, and includes “making available.”


It's less of a big deal then it sounds, and was originally proposed as clause 5 of the Bill C-51(Investigative Powers For The 21st Century).  It was explained here, which will have to do because I'm too lazy to write it up again.  My question, though, is how if at all the SC majority decision in the Crookes Case--which seemed to make it OK to link to defamatory speech if the defamation was not repeated in the linking post--will effect this.  After all, one can think of hate speech as group defamation.

More information will presumably follow, and I will be interested in seeing how closely if at all the legislation follows The Moon Report: a mandatory, nation-wide press council, anyone?

Corneliu Chisu's Office Responds

According to the following, The Tory MP's staffers did not know who Marc Lemire was when they replied to his request for Mr. Chisu's support re Bill C-304:

We respond to individuals who write in to our office, regardless of political affiliation or whether they are a constituent or not; that being said we have no way of knowing the political affiliations of whoever writes in or the previous history of anyone who writes in. Mr. Lemire asked for Mr. Chisu’s stance on Bill C-304 so I gave it to him. Corresponding with someone does not mean they share values with that person, and I can guarantee you that if in fact Mr. Lemire is as you’ve described, this would apply.

I have left the personal contact information off this email, as per the senders request.  But: someone should have applied teh Googles.

Your Daily Nazi: Tory MP's Office Sends Letter In Support of Bill C-304 To White Nationalist Marc Lemire (The Inspiration Behind The Bill)

Here's the letter:

And here's the source.  And here's some background on Mr. Lemire, including his wiki entry, from which I quote: "Lemire was the last president of the often violent Heritage Front organization from January 1, 2001 until the organization folded around 2005".  If Mr. Chisu was living in T.O. back in the mid 1990s to early 2000s, he should have heard of this guy.  I will send his office a quick email, and see if he remembers.

PS. A reader notes that Lemire

...the last known president of the Heritage Front, was working for Mr. [Ernst] Zündel part-time, and then full-time for many years until Mr. Zündel left for the United States.

...and that CPoC Minister Vic Toews has reitereated that Mr. Zundel is not welcome back in Canada.

Storseth "Free Speech" Bill Unlikely To Pass

 The story's claim of all-party criticism of the bill is overblown, as the only Tory they could find to speak out was Senator Nancy Ruth.  Nevertheless, I think Joe Comartin is correct when he says:

“The Prime Minister, on more than one occasion, seemed to indicate to the media that he was not in favour of doing away with it,” Comartin says. “There are a number of different communities – the Jewish community, the Islamic community in Canada – are very opposed to that being done away with.”

Certainly the gov's official response to the bill thus far is to pretend that it doesn't exist.

Your Daily Nazi, Part II: Storseth's Bill To Empower The Nazis

...due up for a vote in February 2012 or so. So says Kady O'Malley, who writes:

...Storseth's bid to repeal the clause of the CHRA that governs the transmission of "hate messages" by telephone or online is likely to be one of the more contentious private members' bill to go before the House during the life of the 41st Parliament, with the most crucial - and as yet unanswered - question whether he will be able to count on garnering the support of the government. If he does, it will likely pass easily; if he does not, he may be able to count on many of his fellow Conservative backbenchers -- a dozen of whom rose to be officially recorded as seconders of the bill -- but most cabinet ministers would likely remain seated when it comes down to a vote.

Presumably, the LPoC, NDP, a Lizzy May fill be firmly against.  Or at least, I have no idea who the "pro" standard bearer might be with Keith Martin out of the way.

Campaign To Repeal Section 13 of Human Rights Act Off To Blistering Start!

After nearly a week, FreeD's petition on behalf of  MP Brian Storseth's Bill C-304 (to repeal the Hate Speech clause of the Canadian Human Rights Act) has gathered a whopping 19 signatures.  But numbers don't tell the whole story. Galactus, Eater of Worlds, has thrown in with the Speechies.  Also Marc Lemire.  August company indeed.

(Note: click on image above for better view)

Your Daily Nazi: Support Rises For Storseth Private Member's Bill Among Canadian Neo-Nazis!

 From here:

Yeah, its that Paul Fromm.  And of course Heritage Front leader Marc Lemire is down with the repeal as well:

Mr. Storseth, you must be so proud.

My Bad

 Storseth's private Member's bill to repeal section 13 of the Human Rights Act (C-304) was indeed introduced Friday.  And it looks like an act, not a mere motion.  I was looking at the wrong order papers.  Here's a newspaper account.  Several other sections are being mucked about with, but I haven't had time to figure out the implications yet. 

Ah well, victory is sweeter if they struggle a bit.