Here’s the document.

See Sean Berry online, Right Pundits, and Michelle Malkin.

Malkin quotes Kathy Shaidle:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARK STEYN NOT GUILTY OF “FLAGRANT ISLAMOPHOBIA,”
SAYS TRIBUNAL
AUTHORS OF NEW BOOK ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONS
CALL VERDICT THE EXCEPTION WITHIN A SYSTEM
STACKED AGAINST THE ACCUSED

TORONTO (October 10, 2008) — Today, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal handed down a not-guilty verdict in the case of Maclean’s magazine and its columnist Mark Steyn.
The case, prompted by charges of “flagrant Islamophobia” made against Steyn and Maclean’s by the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), focused critical attention on Canada’s controversial Human Rights Commissions. Today, the Tribunal ruled that Mark Steyn and Maclean’s did not violate the human rights of the complainants merely by reporting facts and accurately quoting sources.
The Steyn trial, along with other lesser known but equally troubling cases, are chronicled in the new book The Tyranny of Nice: How Canada crushes freedom in the name of human rights, written by Kathy Shaidle and Pete Vere (www.TyrannyOfNice.com)
Authors Kathy Shaidle and Pete Vere commented today on the verdict in the Steyn & Maclean’s case:
“Unfortunately, this decision is only a partial victory for Mark Steyn, Maclean’s magazine and every other writer and publisher in Canada.

“This Kafkaesque trial cost taxpayers dearly, while many Canadians struggle to make ends meet. More importantly, it cost Canada its international reputation as a free, just and tolerant country. While Steyn and Maclean’s won, most defendants are found guilty; the HRCs boast of a nearly 100% rate of conviction.

“We can only hope that this case and all the others chronicled in our book will help make the continued existence of Canada’s out of control, draconian Human Rights Commissions an issue in the coming federal election.

“If elected Prime Minister, what will Stephen Harper, Stephane Dion, Jack Layton or Elizabeth May do to rein in the powers of human rights commissions and protect freedom of speech and freedom of the press?”

See “Mark Steyn Victorious…but don’t celebrate yet…” by Kathy Shaidle at Pajamas Media.

In an important sense, Canada, one of the oldest continuous constitutional democracies on the planet, is no longer a free society. Oh, I don’t mean there are jackboots goosestepping through Cornwall, and razor wire along the 49th parallel. If there were, even the most lobotomized multiculturalist drone might notice. But I do mean that, in its determination to enforce a dubious government-mandated “niceness”, key elements of the Canadian state have taken a jackhammer to the cornerstone of a free society: freedom of expression, freedom of ideas, freedom of belief, freedom to engage in the whole messy rough’n’tumble of vigorous debate that distinguishes open societies from lesser, stunted, insecure ones…
- Steyn’s introduction to The Tyranny Of Nice

As many readers will know, Mark spent much of 2008 embroiled in spurious hate-crime cases brought by the Canadian Islamic Congress with the aid of their stooges at the Canadian, Ontario and British Columbia “Human Rights” Commissions. In a characteristically robust read, Kathy Shaidle and Pete Vere tell the story of the Maclean’s suits, the Alberta government’s investigation of Ezra Levant, and other ludicrous cases brought by Canada’s diseased “human rights” apparatus. From the “human right” of fast-food employees not to wash their hands after using the toilet to the “human right” of drunken lesbians to heckle stand-up comedians, Shaidle and Vere present a riveting portrait of Canada’s kangaroo courts, their assault on liberty, and the lessons they offer for America and other countries. It’s a great read, and includes a special introduction by Hatemonger Steyn himself. And don’t forget, when you order from SteynOnline, the Hatemonger will be happy to autograph it to you or your loved one. Or hated one.
Get the book at steynonline.

One doesn’t have to wonder very long which presidential candidate would impose an organization in the United States that mimics the acts of Canada’s HRC….

What is the most appalling part of the HRC’s kangaroo court is–it has close to a 100% conviction rate.

Huh.  Just like Japan.

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