Protesting a ban imposed by the university administration on one topic of discussion, she demanded that the restriction be lifted "in accordance with a basic commitment to freedom of expression and organization in the democratic context of the public university ... This strange and unprecedented ban," the National Post quotes her as writing, "is a blatant violation of democratic freedoms of speech and dissent, and an attack on students' right to organize. It is the position of the YFS (York Students Federation) and GSA (Graduate Students Association) that universities are sites where discussions and debates about difficult geo-political questions should be promoted, not stifled. International controversy ... cannot be resolved through repression, but through ongoing intellectual exchang...
There was no mention of the myriad issues in Canada specific to First Nations, Inuit, or Metis. Nothing about compensation for Indian residential school survivors, or for Aboriginal veterans. There were no commitments to the targets and goals set out in the Kelowna accord on housing, health and education. Nor was there any mention to funding for that accord. The only commitment of the federal government to Native people was to "seek to improve opportunity for all Canadians, including Aboriginal peoples and new immigrants." The mention was wedged between a specific promise to apologize for the Chinese head tax and the development of disaster relief programs for those toiling in the agriculture industry. Not according to Partrick Brazeau, new Congress of Aboriginal Peoples national chief,...
More recently, the Canadian Islamic Congress filed human rights complaints against an article by conservative commentator Mark Steyn in Maclean's magazine about the consequences of Muslim immigrants' high birth rates (The Future Belongs to Islam), saying it "subjects Canadian Muslims to hatred and contempt. Free speech," as philosopher Ronald Dworkin says, "is a condition of legitimate government. Laws and policies are not legitimate unless they have been adopted through a democratic process, and a process is not democratic if government has prevented anyone from expressing his (or her) convictions about what those laws and policies should be." One commentator (Rebecca Walberg, Shut down the human rights commissions, Calgary Herald, Dec. 19) argues that commissions are no longer neces...
Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion refused to immediately declare one way or the other. Under pressure from within his party, he criticized the speech, especially the "weakness" of the plans for tackling climate change, and predicted the caucus would have a "very lively" meeting today over what it wants to do. [Jack Layton] took strong exception to the government's plans to ignore the Kyoto targets, and what he said was its failure to address poverty in this country. "We have a mandate to oppose the direction Mr. [Stephen Harper] is taking. It's wrong," he told reporters. On Afghanistan, not only are they not proposing to put an end on that mission by February, 2009 -- we're talking about staying there until 2011," he told reporters. "And they are putting more money into the military. Kyoto?...
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