Canadian Heritage committee  I am not sure exactly how long I have.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll do my best.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, sir. It is no more possible to legislate against hate than it is to legislate for love. Nobody can compel another person to love. Nobody can compel another person not to hate. It's not the role of government. The role of government is to uphold constitutional freedoms

Canadian Heritage committee  Racism is something you can't legislate against, per se, because it begins in the mind. It exists in the mind. In a multicultural society, where you have a lot of different people, a lot of different religions, and a lot of different perspectives, everybody thinks they are right

Canadian Heritage committee  Uphold the rights of the citizens. What is in the best interests of this country is more freedom, not more laws.

Canadian Heritage committee  My understanding is that witnesses last week presented in front of the committee about state-funded initiatives to promote multiculturalism in the Jewish and Islamic faith and in the Christian faith. So the government is abundantly making efforts to ensure that people respect eac

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Interestingly, when the widespread use of female genital mutilation by Iraqi Kurds was reported, some members of influential Islamic and Arabic organizations in the diaspora scandalized the findings. They accused Wadi of trying to insult Islam and spread anti-Islamic

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you.

Canadian Heritage committee  Honourable members of Parliament, thank you for having me here today. I'm here on behalf of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. It's a registered charity, non-partisan and non-religious, and it receives no government funding. It's dedicated to upholding the charter

Justice committee  I'm surprised by the question, sir, because you're a lawyer. You know, in the legal context, there is a prerequisite that can be put into the law to require that something happen as a prerequisite for something else happening. For example—

Justice committee  I think there's a basic assumption in your question which betrays the fallacy that undermines it, and it's that you're making an assumption that people are going to disobey the law or ignore the law. What is the point of having a law—

Justice committee  Go ahead, sir.

Justice committee  He had the discretion to make the mistake. That's the difference, right? You remove the discretion to make the mistake, and you solve the problem. That's the basic problem with your question.

Justice committee  The problem currently is that the legislation allows for crown discretion about whether or not to introduce the record. There shouldn't be any discretion to do that, in my respectful submission.

Justice committee  No, sir. My father used to ask me, when I had a hard time understanding a math problem, if he should get the pennies out. I feel that's what I should ask you, should I get the pennies out? Because this creates a requirement for there to be a record in order to have a bail hearing