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Originally Posted by Bluesman
And Trooth, do I misunderstand you, or are you saying that it's not really the HRCs existence that's troubling to you, but merely their outlook and their process? That they got this case wrong, but, because it's LEGAL, it's perfectly legit to be in the business they're in?
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Here is their mandate :-
Alberta Human Rights & Citizenship Commission - Mandate and Function of the Commission
Lots of words, but the summary is it's motivation is :-
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Originally Posted by HRC of Alberta
- to foster equality, and
- reduce discrimination for Albertans
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Which it claims to achieve in the following areas :-
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- Publications and Notices
- Goods, Services, Accommodation and Facilities
- Tenancy
- Equal Pay
- Employment and Employment Practices
- Applications and Advertising re Employment
- Membership in Trade Unions, Employers' Organizations or Occupational Associations.
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Now, i can't see how publishing an article about Mohammed or anybody else comes under that remit. I don't see anything in their remit that says "to make sure people aren't offended". What Lavant has not done is discriminate in his publication. Therefore i think that the HRC has completely overstepped it's remit.
If anything what it has done is end any usefulness of the HRC because if i was an Albertan i would take a hint from the article from Lavant that you published
Bluesman and complain about the various writings of those complaining about the cartoons. Clog the HRC of A up with such cases and it will get it's neck pulled in.
As to should the HRC exist? That's up to the people of Canada to decide. Do they feel that everyone gets a fair shake of the stick? It's easy for me to say "no such things have the opportunity to Orwellian mis-uses (as in this case)", because i am a White Anglo-Saxon Male with a reasonably neutral accent. Hence I carry nothing before me into most encounters in huge tracts of global society that have been moulded around people like me. If everyone in Canada regardless of their sex, colour, ethnic background or what they sound like can say the same then it doesn't need to exist.