Wait, wasn’t the Ezra Levant case also in Alberta?  I may be wrong about this, though.

Anti-Strauss:  you are right.  What Levant suffered is just as egregious as what is happening to the victimized pastor in this case, and raises similar queries about the vigilance of Alberta’s citizens, who are supposed to be libertarian and conservative.  Levant’s “crime” was publishing the Danish cartoons of Mohammed which sparked riots across the Middle East; the fact that the HR apparatchiks threatened him with punishment for practicing his right to freedom of expression should have provoked the libertarian instincts of Albertans.  What is revealing about this pastor’s case is that Alberta is supposed to be the Bible Belt of Canada, yet an evangelical Christian pastor there is being legally excoriated for holding traditional views on homosexuality.  Hopefully some powerful evangelicals will wade into this battle before the war is lost.

The problem with individualism is when it becomes self-contradictory.  If I don’t defend you and your rights when they are violated (saying it’s your business not mine), I may value my rights, but not rights as such.

This is where I worry about many current “Libertarians” of the Anarchist wing - They write a lot about “property rights”, but they don’t seem to be willing to actually defend anything if it would be even slightly inconvenient.

Perhaps this is one of the large splits between the conservatives here and libertarians - Much of the infrastructure which protects rights are collective - not individual, and not efficient (as in market), so one sees a foundation, the other a paradox.

someone explain to me what power the human rights tribunals have??? what is the sentence if this pastor is found guilty???

i think these tribunals are trying to find a balance between freedom of speech and speech that is discriminatory… is it okay to dis homosexuals, or christian fundamentalists, or does feedom of speech have any limitations placed on it???? here on this site, their is an option for flagging a comment that is viewed as ‘abusive’… how does one define that????

What a silly, worthless country.

Yup, Canada is so silly.  Unless California, whose “conservative” governor had endorsed gay marriage and made it illegal for school textbooks to refer to “mom and dad,” since this is hateful to gay parents.  Is Canada any worse than a country whose leading neoconservative told Pat Buchanan back in 1992 that the left won the culture war, so give it up?  Now that’s silly and worthless.

Yes, that is silly, except California isn’t America and the leading neoconservative you speak of doesn’t make national policy. Face it, Canada has always been more politically correct and left wing than America.

Well dear Grigory, if Prof. Gottfried is right, the leftist rights revolution is a US import which influences Canada and Europe.  It didn’t just pop out of the air.  Canadian and Europeans leaders are educated in US universities, cradles of leftism. The Frankfurters achieved more power in the USA than any other nation.  In short, PC is a US fashion.  Physician, heal thyself.

“Canada will be a nice country once it’s finished.” Brendan Behan

In some ways, Canadians are more Americanized than the Americans. We receive the exportable content of U.S. culture, but we lack the immunity that many if not most Americans have developed to their own culture.

This is an ideology that the U.S. is exporting to the rest of the world through its domination of the media. I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the most vulnerable countries are English-speaking ones, like Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. They understand the message. The other countries just look at the visual content and smile.