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Old 08-06-2016, 09:04 PM   #9904
Buster
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Canada's approach to the protection of speech is terrible, and an embarrassment. As with so many other aspects of Canada, it's how you don't want to run a country.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ine-by-quebec/

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Quebec’s Human Rights Tribunal has leveled a $35,000 fine against a comedian for a joke he told from 2010 through 2013.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...esbian-heckler

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In 2011, Toronto comedian Guy Earle was ordered by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal to pay $15,000 to Lorna Pardy, a homosexual woman who said she suffered “lasting physical and psychological effect” after Mr. Earle directed a string of lesbian slurs at her during a 2007 Vancouver open mic night.
This is what happens when naive university professors manage to gain control.
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