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Originally Posted by peter12
Holy overreaction. Everyone is just saying they don't like the Human Rights Commission... which are UNDEMOCRATIC! Nothing about hating immigrants or anyone else.
Who said Canada was going down the drain? I love this country, I don't like the Human Rights Commission and believe there are far better ways to handle complaints.
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Hardly an over-reaction on my part. Merely an opinion. Was there not a toilet/plunging metaphor used on the first page? Has the HRC not been cast by some here as an organization wasting resources and slowly debilitating Canadian society?
Also, you're going to have to explain to me how a Human Rights Commission is undemocratic. I was pretty sure human rights are fundamental to democracy.
I'm not saying they're perfect or that the system shouldn't be overhauled or that people shouldn't complain about it. I just think a lot of the complaints against the HRC single out claims brought by people considered radically different from a 'Canadian identity' (whatever that is), and, by extension, such claims aren't worthy of consideration because it's people who unreasonably won't assimilate or acquiesce to that 'Canadian identity'. That kind of talk makes me nervous.
Maybe I'm wrong and that's a mischaracterization of what's going on here. Or maybe i'm just ideologically so left that I can't understand what those on the right are saying. You tell me.
At the end of the day, I see Canadian identity as not something set in the past but as something evolving, changing, and welcoming of difference. As such, I see something like the HRC as both important (even with its problems) and fundamental to Canadian identity.