Media, free speech, and human rights

TOPICS:Free Speech Haroon Siddiqui hate speech Human Rights Commission Maclean's Max Yalden media

Posted By: Law is Cool November 2, 2009

Media aren’t the best friends of human rights

Max Yalden was an Official Languages Commissioner in 1977-84 and the head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 1987-96. Recalling the Maclean’s case and other contentious issues of free speech versus human rights,Â Haroon Siddiqui reviews Yalden’s just-published memoir:

Yalden’s central message is that Canada’s human rights regime works reasonably well, notwithstanding the media’s hissy fit.

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