Human wrongs

Canadian commission takes on Mark Steyn—and free speech | Janie B. Cheaney

To paraphrase Mark Twain, there's PC, outrageous PC, and the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

Begun as a quasi-legal entity to root out discrimination in the workplace, the CHRC has more recently turned to punishing "offensive" speech. In taking on Mark Steyn, however, it may have invited more publicity than it wants.

Two years ago an excerpt from Steyn's book, America Alone, was published in Maclean's, one of Canada's leading news journals. The article, titled "The Future Belongs to Islam," expressed Steyn's view that at their current comparative birth rates, Islamic citizens of Europe will soon outnumber native Europeans—with, shall we say, troubling implications for Western tradition.