Ezra speaks at Media Lawyers Association conference

Excellent remarks! But how is that "media-chill" working for all those lawyers not to mention Jane & Joe Public?

Checking in at Deborah Gyapongs blog would have me believe the Media lawyers conference has barred, well, THE MEDIA.

http://deborahgyapong.blogspot.com/2008/11/media-lawyers-conference-bars-media.html

Ok, it is their conference they can invite whom ever they want. It's a private affair. Fine.

Let us all understand this: Anyone speaking at any conference, or really anywhere, in Canada is liable to be sued by anyone.

Media-chill working fine. HRC's still picking up those taxpayer funded paychecks too.


An excerpt of Ezra's talk at the conference:

... That’s not law. That’s corrupt, that’s abusive, that’s un-Canadian.

It’s un-Canadian than not a single person tried under s. 13, in thirty years, has ever been acquitted.

It’s un-Canadian that 91% of the CHRC’s targets are so poor they can’t afford lawyers, and aren’t given one.

It’s un-Canadian that the CHRC goes online, posing as neo-Nazis, spewing racist venom, to entrap people in discussions that they then prosecute.

It’s un-Canadian that the CHRC has no ethics code, and has hacked a private citizen’s e-mail account in one of their neo-Nazi personas – which is why the CHRC is now under both RCMP and Privacy Commission investigation.

Anyone who believes in a spectrum of ideas should be furious with these kangaroo courts. And anyone whose job it is to defend the media should be very worried, too.

FULL STORY AT EZRA'S BLOG: My opening remarks at today's Media Lawyers Association conference in Ottawa - Ezra Levant