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271 MEDIA DIES IN RUSSIA
Journalistic fears; seedy
Barcelona; work kidnappings.
Interview Business
121 BONNIE HENRY 281 GENERATION WAR
Cathy Gulli talks with the 21From the Editors 31Mail Bag Boomers and young workers
virus hunter about H1Nl. S 1Seven Days 61Newsmakers vie for precious jobs.
30 I BROKE BRITANNIA
Columns
91 PAUL WELLS
Stephen Harper won't let
the opposition coalition die.
SEPTEMBER21-28, 2009 The U.K.'s economic mess.
Nature
321 THE YEAR OF THE RAT
10 I ANDREW COYNE Prepare for a winter invasion.
Ottawa politics are bankrupt. 68 I Books
Society
COVER STORY: Dan Brown's new thriller will
111 CAPITAL DIARY 34 I WWOOFIT
mysteriously sell millions.
Mitchel Raphael on feline, Travel and organic farming.
as well as political, tweets. 721TV
Curb Your Enthusiasm is Seinfe/d with a moral code.
National 73 1 Help 371 BEST GRAD SCHOOLS
141 WHAT RECESSION? Margaret Drabble gets satisfaction through jigsaw puzzles. The top professional schools.
The economy's minimal role
74 I Film 381 LAW
in the next election.
George Clooney and Matt Damon fall to earth at TIFF. School rankings; making the
17 ISHAPE UP 76 IBazaar cut; justice system in crisis.
A human rights tribunal at- Men are getting into the girdle craze. Stop laughing.
tacks its own hate-crime law. 441 MEDICINE
77 1 Music Choosing family practices;
181 CAR VS. BIKE Rufus Wainwright on his new opera and kissing up to Toronto. prepping for the MMI.
Howa cyclist died on
781Steyn 521 M.B.A.
Toronto's "Mink Mile." The wheels fall off the human rights tribunal racket.
The surprisingly good job
221 LET'S GO RACING, BOYS 81I Feschuk market; volunteering matters.
NASCAR and "Mr. Boogity"; Funny men are useless after the end of the world.
60 I ENGINEERING
library porn; stolen artwork.
821The End Getting women into the
Murray Albert Nesbitt; 1951-2009 techie game.
World
241 HELPING DEMOCRACY 641 REALITY CHECK
A McGill prof teaches non- SUBSCRIBE TO MACLEAN'S AT What the provinces think of
violent protest to Iranians. WWW.MACLEANS.CA the Big Five's reform ideas.
13(1).) Both the B.C. and Ontario rights com-
eager to add Mr. Lemire's scalp to the CHRT's these provisions is not a reasonable limit' interpreted British Columbia "Human Rights" ~
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trophy room. In that long ago spring of 2008, within the meaning of s. 1 of the Charter." Code, Maclean's and I were undoubtedly 2
the rules were very simple: under the Can- When this magazine's difficulties with Sec- guilty. In fact, after the verdict Kenneth Whyte, ~
adian "Human Rights" Tribunal, to be accused tion 13 began in late 2007, received opinion this magazine's head honcho, and I had a 2>-
of a Section 13 thought crime was to be con- took refuge in the weasel formulation that "of faintly surreal conversation discussing whether ~
victed. In the entire history of Section 13, course we all believe in freedom of speech but or not to appeal the acquittal: that's how nutty ~
every defendant brought before the CHRT it's a question of striking a balance, drawing a Canadian justice is in the 21st century. ~
had been found guilty. It would be unfair to line;' and other claptrap intended to appeal Before I attracted the attention of the ~
compare this to the justice systems of Sad- to Canadians' sense of their own moderation. thought police, I wasn't entirely up to speed 6:
TOO MUCH HAPPINESS 1 (2)
by Alice Munro
4 GENERATION A (1)
by Douglas Coupland
on state censorship in Canada, and I asked den yen to attend Judge Hadjis's court. Our 7 HOMER & LANGLEY (1)
by E.L. Doctorow
my friend Ezra Levant what he knew about counsel, Julian Porter, Q.C., filed a motion
this Section 13 business. He sent me a print- to open up the secret trial. He did what law- 8 LOVE AND SUMMER (1)
by William Trevor
out with the history of every single case. Two yers are supposed to do-he cited precedent
9 THE CHILDREN'S BOOK 3 (21)
things stood out: first, while the plaintiffs (eBe vs. New Brunswick, Ambard vs.Attorney- by A.S. Byatt
had the costs of the case paid for by the tax- General ofTrinidad and Tobago) and eminent
10 SOUTH OF BROAD 5 (4)
payer, almost all of the defendants had been jurists from Viscount Haldane to Chief Jus- by Pat Conroy
too poor to have legal representation. That's tice Dickson. In response, the CHRC offered ...... .. ........ ...... .... . ..... . . . . ... . . . . .. . . . . .
an inversion of basic justice. Second, one man feverish fantasies insisting that their work
Non-fiction
had been the plain tiff on every single Section was too dangerous to be exposed to open
EMPIRE OF ILLUSION 1 (7)
13 case since 2002-Richard Warman. That court. Judge Hadjis caved, and rescinded his
by Chris Hedges
didn't pass the smell test. secret-trial order.
2 OUTLIERS by Malcolm Gladwell 2 (41)
The list had been compiled by someone So now he's caved again, and the jurist who
3 WHY YOUR WORLD IS 4 (16)
called Marc Lemire, a man who'd been caught thought nothing oflifetime publication bans
ABOUT TO GET A WHOLE
in the "human rights" crosshairs for half a dec- is a born-again champion of constitutional LOT SMALLER by Jeff Rubin
ade. You might not care for his opinions, but freedom. Whatever. 4 THE CELLO SUITES 3 (25)
that, as they say, is a matter of opinion. That he As for those who persist in seeing "hate" as by Eric Siblin
has been traduced by the Canadian justice sys- a threat to the Queen's peace, at Jay Currie's 5 THE EVOLUTION OF GOD 7 (8)
by Robert Wright
tem is a matter off act. But he's a dogged type, website a commenter "pettifogger" pointed
and he pushed back, and he got the goods on out that the sole post that Judge Hadjis deemed 6 BORN ROUND by Frank Bruni (1)
his abusers. He demonstrated that evidence in breach of Section 13~"AIDS Secrets" -was 7 THE BOLTER 8 (10)
exhibits were switched in mid-trial by the CHRC. read by a total of just eight people in Canada, by Frances Osborne
He proved that Warman and CHRC investi- or nought-point-eight of a Canadian per prov- 8. SLOW DEATH BY 5 (16)
RUBBER DUCK
gator Dean Steacywere themselves members ince. However, you've got to reckon that by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie
of and posters on white supremacist websites maybe two to three of those eight views were
9 GOD IS 6 (3)
under various aliases. Indeed, in a remarkable from Richard Warman salivating over another by David Adams Richards
conflict of interest, Warman, as the plaintiff, tax-free windfall ifhe sued for being" offended" 10 ETERNAL LIFE by John Spong (1)
was permitted to stroll into the CHRC, the by it; another two to three came from the
investigating body, and share passwords and CHRC bookmarking and downloading it to
Internet aliases with Steacy. enter in evidence; and maybe the sole remain-
ON THE WEB: For book reviews,
But Mr. Lemire was too obscure a figure ing view came from Mr. Lemire just after
feature articles, interviews and
to get any publicity for the CHRC's proced- posting to check that it was formatted and recommended reading by celebrities,
ural abuses and kinky penchant for playing displaying correctly. check out our new "Books Page" at
dress-up Nazis on the Internet at taxpayer In other words, no one in Canada saw this macleans.cajbooks
expense all too long. One day,.as I was rum- post. Yet Her Majesty's thought police took
maging agog through what he'd uncovered, I six years to bring this case to conclusion. And, public discourse. Instead, its "human rights"
came across a ruling by Judge Hadjis agreeing whether or not it's offensive, there's nothing regime has, quite consciously, attempted to
to the CHRC's motion to close Mr. Lemire's in there that should be illegal in a free soci- upgrade unfashionable opinions into illegal
hearing to the public. I stopped, rubbed my ety with robust traditions of vigorous public ones. When government bureaucrats forget
eyes, and reread it slowly: secret trials? In debate. That's the point: Marc Lemire is no they are not our rulers but our servants, that's
Canada? Over some unread Internet posts? threat to Canada. Whereas Jennifer Lynch, always a bigger problem than whatever "crisis"
Apparently so. Minor servants of the Crown Chief Commissar of the CHRC, and her mob they purport to be addressing.
in dull desk-bound jobs had decided that they of statist hacks, social engineers and secret- For the moment, whatever Parliament or
were really cyber-007s whose top secret work agent fantasists are ultimately a very profound the Supreme Court does, Section 13 is dead.
was vital to national security. I emailed Ken threat indeed. To survive as a free people, Can- The camel's nose ofliberty is under the CHRC
Whyte and said I'd been overcome by a sud- adians need the rough and tumble of honest tent. Now let's give 'em the hump. M