While not a Stephen Harper fan by any measure, I must agree with Ezra Levant that he deserved the Saul Hayes Award. His, and other’s criticisms, that the various human rights commissions excesses as “egregious” and “abusive”, is well founded.
While I agree in the main with Mr. Levant’s points in his article, I must question one aspect of Saul Hayes’ pronouncements, namely that “the Nazis had the right to wave a swastika.”
There is a limit to the freedom of expression. While you have a might have a right to make offensive statements that you believe is true; when these statements go beyond being opprobrious and incite hatred and violence toward another person or group, it is no longer worthy of protection. Anti-Semitism might have been latent in pre-war Germany, but the Nazi propaganda fuelled the visceral hatred that presaged and enabled the Holocaust. The Jews there hoped it would abate; not acerbate. But it didn’t –lest we forget.
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