In 2003, serial plaintiff Richard Warman filed a Section 13 complaint against Marc Lemire for postings on the Freedomsite message board.  None of the posting complained about were written or approved by Marc Lemire, but because he was the webmaster of the message board, the CHRC is trying to hold him liable.

In 2005, Lemire challenged the constitutionality of Section 13 and 54 of the Canadian Human Rights Act as an egregious censorship provision severely limiting freedom of speech and thought.

The case against Lemire dragged on for 4 years before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, and before the Federal Court of Canada, where the CHRC was forced to admit they spy on Canadian and American websites.

Since Marc Lemire and his courageous lawyer Barbara Kulaszka went to work, the entire landscape of Section 13 censorship has changed.

On Sept 2, 2009, the Human Rights Tribunal fully acquitted Marc Lemire, and refused to apply Section 13 due to its unconstitutional provisions.  The case has been appealed by the CHRC human rights fanatics.

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Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act is Canada's shameful internet censorship provision.

Section 13 makes it an offence to "likely" "expose" privileged groups to "hatred and/or contempt." There are NO defences under Section 13!  Even truth and intent are considered irrelevant to a finding of discrimination.

The law was enacted in 1977 in order to silence a man named John Ross Taylor for messages he recorded onto his telephone answering machine.  In the intervening 32 years, not a single person who has been hauled up on Section 13 charges has ever been acquitted - a 100% conviction rate.

Mainstream media outlets, from Victoria to Halifax, have demanded a repeal of Section 13 and denounced the human rights industry. Editorials commonly refer to the Tribunal as a "kangaroo court," and highlight how 'human rights' commissions  "threaten our liberty."

On September 2, 2009, the Human Rights Tribunal declared that Section 13 and 54 were unconstitutional.

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Please support Marc Lemire's Constitutional Challenge of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

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July 14, 2010: SECTION 13 SERIES: Intimidation and Chilling Effects - The attacks on writers like Mark Steyn and rigged CHRC decisions

July 9, 2010: CHRC out of control. Spending money like mad. "Winnipeg to Ottawa? Hell of a commute"

June 20, 2010: CHRC Spent Close to $85,000 to Uphold Internet Censorship Legislation

June 19, 2010: Canadian Free Speech League File to Intervene in the Lemire Constitutional Challenge

June 11, 2010: SECTION 13 SERIES: Discrimination in the name of "Human Rights" - Section 13 targets one race exclusively

June 2, 2010: SECTION 13 SERIES: A Sword not a Shield! The Aggressive Nature of Internet Censorship

June 1, 2010: The Death Throes of Sec. 13 (Internet Censorship) -- Tribunal Adjourns Makow Case Sine Die

May 28, 2010: BREAKING!!! Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Refuses to Enforce Section 13. All S.13 cases halted

May 27, 2010: OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL - THE COURT: On the eve of change? Addressing hate speech in the Internet age at the Federal Court: "I find Lemire’s submissions stronger"

May 26, 2010: Lemire Opposes the African-Canadian Legal Clinics Intervention to support Censorship

May 19, 2010: NATIONAL POST: Online hate law tested against Charter + Lemire's Comments

May 18, 2010: Lemire Beats the CHRC ... AGAIN:  Office of the Privacy Commissioner Slaps the CHRC's bogus claims - Internal CHRC Section 13 Investigation Guide Ordered Released over the shrieks of the CHRC

May 3, 2010: COURT: Freedom of Speech for Anonymous Posters upheld. Richard Warman loses appeal and ordered to pay $10k in costs

April 16, 2010: Senator Finley on RoadKillRadio. Freedom of Speech in Canada & Human Rights Fanatics (Mentions the Lemire case multiple times)

April 15, 2010: NATIONAL POST: Our Senate gets it right on free speech

April 12, 2010: CJC files to Uphold censorship. Yet are totally speechless on Machete Attack against Jewish Students in Ottawa

April 11, 2010: Doug Christie's Speech on Freedom delivered to the University of Ottawa

April 8, 2010: Canadian Civil Liberties Association Applies for Intervener Status in the Lemire Constitutional Challenge of Internet Censorship CCLA supports Free Speech and an end to CHRC Censorship

April 3, 2010: Marc Lemire writes to the Senate on the inquiry concerning the Erosion of Freedom of Speech in Canada

April 2, 2010: NATIONAL POST: John Ivison: Laws should protect against hate, not against being offended

April 2, 2010: [VIDEO] Stephen Taylor interviews Senator Doug Finley about the state of free expression in Canada

April 2, 2010: Canadian Senators support Freedom of Speech and slam "Human Rights" Censorship.  Senator Finley says "…our own Canadian Human Rights Commission has egregiously violated freedom of speech without any shame."

March 24, 2010: Ann Coulter in Canada! University of Ottawa speech canceled due to "Security Concerns"

March 17, 2010: Federal Court Ruling: BCCLA is allowed to intervene in Lemire case

March 3, 2010: BC Civil Liberties Association files at the Federal Court of Canada to oppose Internet censorship from the misnamed Canadian "Human Rights" Commission  BCCLA Intervene in the Marc Lemire Free Speech case

Feb 28, 2010: Canadian Human Rights Commission calls B'nai Brith's 'Audit of Antisemitic Incidents' of "dubious scientific validity"

Feb 23, 1020: Marc Lemire files at the Federal Court to oppose Internet censorship from the misnamed Canadian "Human Rights" Commission

Feb 22, 2010: NATIONAL POST: Internet rendered hate law 'outdated'

Feb 8, 2010: LIFE SITE NEWS: Canadian Human Rights Commission Appeals Ruling against Hate Messages Statute

Feb 4, 2010: US Judge dismisses charges against Bill White for allegedly threatening Richard Warman

Feb 3, 2010: STEYN: Guy Earle - Regular Guy, broken man and "Marc Lemire ... wound up inflicting more damage on the Human Rights racket than anything else"

January 28, 2010: NATIONAL POST: Chair's ruling on Section 13 incorrect: rights body

January 25, 2010: Canadian "Human Rights" Censors file at the Federal Court of Canada to keep their precious censorship franchise

Dec 18, 2009: BCF: $45,580.39 of your tax dollars spent hauling CHRC Kommissar David Langtry between Manitoba & Ottawa

Dec 17, 2009: Mark Steyn comments about Human Rights legislation in Canada

Dec 17, 2009: Jennifer Lynch & “Human Rights” Commission Busted by Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF)

Dec 6, 2009: FALSE FLAG EXPOSED: Radical "racist" Hal Turner an FBI agent for "years"

Dec 3, 2009: Partial victory for free speech in Boissoin court judgment

Dec 2, 2009: [VIDEO] DOUG CHRISTIE: What Happened to Jeff Hughes?

Nov 14, 2009: STEYN on his appearance before the JUST committee investigating the Canadian Human Rights Commission: "Spare me the therapeutic platitudes"

Oct 29, 2009: Marc Lemire asks to testify before the JUST committee investigating the out of control CHRC

Oct 28, 2009: Canadian Free Speech League files application to Intervene in Lemire case

Oct 25, 2009: Parliament's JUST committee continues their review of the censorship provisions of Section 13. Next up, the Chief Kangaroo and her cheering section

XTRA!: Feds consider striking hate speech clause

Oct 13, 2009: The 24th Annual George Orwell Free Speech Award

Oct 8, 2009: Marc Lemire files in Federal Court: Opposes the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission

Oct 7, 2009: CHRC Jennifer Lynch’s Speech to CBA in Dublin Ireland - Lynch claims there is a “reverse chill” against the CHRC [Access Request]

Oct 6, 2009: Internet censorship and Section 13 blasted in Parliament.  Steyn and Levant come out swinging for freedom

Oct 4, 2009: Steyn and Levant to hammer Section 13 at Parliament Subcommittee [Info on Testimony]

Oct 3, 2009: Rally the Troops for Free Speech - A campaign for intervenor status in the Judicial Review of Warman v. Lemire

Oct 1, 2009:  The Fanatical CHRC appeal Lemire decisionNo shame in using tax-payers money to keep their censorship franchise going

Sept 18, 2009: Why did the CHRC attack Marc Lemire? Was it really to silence a critic and shut down his website?

Sept 17, 2009: MACLEANS: It took a while but Section 13 is dead (Mark Steyn takes on the CHRC and censors)

Sept 10, 2009: The CHRC in a State of Confusion over Lemire Decision. What will happen now?

Sept 4, 2009: Statement by Marc Lemire on the Tribunals decision to declare Section 13 as unconstitutional and the "AIDS Secrets" article

 

Section 13 found unconstitutional in Lemire case

Final Decision of the Tribunal [PDF]

 

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Sept 1, 2009: PRESS RELEASE: Important legal decision on the validity of the Canadian Human Rights Act to censor Internet postings and online media. Tribunal ruling on the Constitutional Challenge of Section 13 expected on Wednesday Sept 2, 2009 at 9:30am (EST)

Aug 31, 2009:  Decision in Lemire's Constitutional Challenge to be released this Wed - Sept 2, 2009

Aug 12/09: Petition to Repeal Section 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act

Aug 4/09: VIDEO: Human Rights Commission - Good or Bad? (100 Huntley Street with Levant and Father Alphonse de valk)

July 28/09: Musical Band Lindy performs "Shakedown," the pro-freedom of expression song, at the Liberty Summer Seminar - MP Jason Kenny sings along

July 28/09: TORONTO SUN: Rein in the human rights bureaucracy

July 26/09: VIDEO  Doug Christie: Section 13 - Truth is no Defence

July 18/09: RCMP releases documents on the CHRC Criminal Hacking Investigation   Investigation dropped due to jurisdictional issues with the United States And the RCMP investigates Lemire for daring to complain  

July 17/09: CHRCs Jennifer Lynch: Misrepresents Secret Hearing Ruling in Lemire case

July 16/09: [VIDEO] Conservative MP Russ Hiebert slams the CHRC on CTVNews

July 01/09:CHRC Grilled in Parliament on Criminality, Hate Postings and Abuse + Prof Robert Martin's Testimony [Transcripts now available]

June 30/09: MONTREAL GAZETTE: Rights commission threatens our liberty

June 19/09:  [VIDEO] CHRC Grilled in Parliament on Criminality, Hate Posts, Richard Warman and Abuse

June 18/09: National Post editorial board: The Canadian Human Rights Commission's unbalanced view of critics

June 17/09:  Mainstream media slam CHRC OTTAWA CITIZEN: "The most dangerous part of the Canadian Human Rights Act is called Section 13" | Globe and Mail & Ottawa Citizen Denounce CHRC censorship

June 11/09: LEMIRE: 2,044 days under the Iron heel of the CHRC

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