Today is Human Rights Day, the day that commemorates the United Nations' adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights exactly 60 years ago - December 10th 1948. To be honest, I had no great interest in a day dedicated to human rights until agencies of the Canadian state started trying to deprive me of mine, and any professed respect in this space for the UN Declaration is, frankly, largely tactical. But I noticed a year ago, when Ezra Levant and I began our crusade against the deranged Dominion's thought police, that if you pointed out its "human rights" regime was at odds with English Common Law and Canada's 800-year legal inheritance stretching back to Magna Carta, it was greeted with a shrug of indifference...Canada, its "human rights" commissions, and in particular Section 13 of the Human Rights Code are in sustained breach of key provisions of the UN Declaration. To whit...
And the detailed "whit" that Mark Steyn goes on to provide will, though it goes down hard, make for an important and stirring read. Don't miss it.
