Justice committee  I am not sure I have any particular.... Here's the thing. My Q.C. in that case, Julian Porter, who is also the Prime Minister's Q.C., took the position—

Justice committee  I'm answering your question. He took the principled position that we had nothing to defend under Canadian law. I am not here, sir, to justify to you words I have used on TV in the United States and radio in Australia—

Justice committee  —and I do not intend to do it.

Justice committee  The words I chose are the words I chose, and you are free to interpret them as you so wish.

Justice committee  No, you're doing what is perhaps the most repulsive aspect of this committee, which is trying to force people to deny certain things they said five, 10, 15 years ago—

Justice committee  —as if there is only one correct position on Islam—

Justice committee  —on immigration, on climate change, on transgender bathrooms and on same sex marriage. We cannot keep going on saying this is the correct line, and—

Justice committee  I will tell you something with respect to that, too. I'm not going to bandy death threats with Mr. Garrison. I take it he's had them. I appeared on stage at the Danish parliament. I had to be protected by Danish secret police security service. The British foreign office and the

Justice committee  —I was on stage with four other people, one of whom had her restaurant firebombed, the other of whom had her event shut up.

Justice committee  No, I'm telling you that there are all kinds of people who get death threats, and if the alternative is surrendering our liberty over death threats—

Justice committee  —to hell with that, sir.

Justice committee  Could I respond?

Justice committee  [Inaudible—Editor] I've been in this business a long time, and I don't think you'd find anyone, including most of my editors, who would find me anything other than obnoxious, unpleasant and hurtful.

Justice committee  That's a bit of the problem. With respect to Mr. Garrison thinking this is all academic and mumbo-jumbo, that's what my learned friends would call res judicata. The thing has been adjudicated.

Justice committee  No. I was taken to three human rights tribunals, and I won, sir. If you want to take me to court for a fourth time—