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- Letters: At Ann Coulter event, 'lots of hate speech -- from students'
Ann Coulter continues to hold the attention of Canada. Here is some reaction from readers after her Ottawa speech was cancelled due to security concerns.
Re: Coulter Talk Cancelled For Security Reasons; Just Who's Guilty Of A Hate Crime, letters, both March 24. On Tuesday night I was one of several hundred people who waited patiently in the Ottawa rain to hear what Ann Coulter had to say, but alas it was not to be. It was an interesting experience being called a racist bigot and other slurs by a cadre of unruly and rude students, whose education is subsidized by my tax dollars. Then in yesterday's National Post, letter-writer Denise Cooke Browne asks the great unwashed not to "show up at [Ms. Coulter's] talks." Contempt prior to investigation: Doesn't that constitute bias? Ms. Cooke Browne also boasts of having been a former journalist and human rights investigator. It was fortunate I did not have to appear before her; I wouldn't have stood a chance. Geraldine Hyland, Orleans, Ont. While watching television coverage of Ann Coulter's aborted speech at the University of Ottawa on Tuesday, I saw no free speech but plenty of hate speech and threats of violence --from the students. Sharon Quickfall, Edmonton.
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- Kevin Libin: 'Liberals know I haven’t said anything hateful,' Ann Coulter explains
- One incontrovertible lesson to come from Ann Coulter's aborted speech in Ottawa Tuesday night, and indeed from the national reaction to her Canadian speaking tour this week, is that the U.S. pundit didn't even have to open her mouth to ignite a controversy about freedom of speech in Canada.
Warned by campus authorities to censor herself or face the full brunt of Canada’s speech laws before she even arrived; subjected to fairly intense on-campus protests with students calling her hateful and demanding she not be allowed to speak; the talk was cancelled, citing security concerns.
Ann Coulter had come to talk about political correctness and freedom of speech; about the double standard applied between conservatives and liberals. She made a most powerful statement without even showing up.
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