Media, free speech, and human rights

By: Law is Cool · November 2, 2009 · Filed Under Civil Rights, Media Law · Add Comment

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, 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.

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

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