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Originally Posted by itsreallyme  Any position I may have had or not may change (or not) after participating in this thread.
I think it's important to try and understand throughly the reasoning of the Canadian governments posture here. I doubt we want to conclude from the outset that everyone involved in crafting this law are a group of idiots. I'm sure they are not. Many of them are most likly more educated than either one of us and also people whom care for their communities too. That said, I don't want to assume they are correct either without giving through thought to the argument. |
There's no need to speculate. I'll post the stated reason for the act, included in the beginning of the act itself:
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The purpose of this Act is to extend the laws in Canada to give effect, within the purview of matters coming within the legislative authority of Parliament, to the principle that all individuals should have an opportunity equal with other individuals to make for themselves the lives that they are able and wish to have and to have their needs accommodated, consistent with their duties and obligations as members of society, without being hindered in or prevented from doing so by discriminatory practices based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, disability or conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted.
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They are lumping censorship of people's opinions in with discriminatory practices. Whether the government should tell a private business owner who he can hire
is a topic for another thread. I haven't read the whole thing, but I'll concede for now there's probably parts in here that are good. Claiming that posting the wrong opinions on internet forums like this one (section 13 above) is akin to not hiring someone based on their race is ludicrous.
I don't think the people behind this are idiots, I think they are evil and dangerous where liberty, specifically freedom of expression, is concerned.