Would Dion, Layton, May Have The Balls To Standup To UN

I doubt it but Harper has and is proving that he stands behind what he says.....

Standing up against UN censorship
National Post
Thursday, April 05, 2007

When Stephen Harper took office in January, 2006, he declared that Canada would follow a more principled foreign policy. Over the weekend, we got some proof that the Prime Minister meant what he said.
On March 30, the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution aimed at "combating defamation of religions." The name sounds nice and cuddly. But as the details make clear, the resolution is in fact an effort by Muslim countries to promote the criminalization of any candid discourse concerning the link between Islamist ideology and terrorism.
By the resolution's terms, states are urged to "take resolute action to prohibit the dissemination including through political institutions and organizations of racist and xenophobic ideas and material aimed at any religion or its followers that constitute incitement to racial and religious hatred, hostility or violence." If such language were contained in, say, a Canadian statute, the courts likely would interpret it to exclude only the most vile and malignant expressions of hate. But as censorious Human Rights Council rapporteurs would interpret this resolution, you can bet it will be invoked to attack everything from hawkish opinion columns to Mohammad cartoons.
Good on Canada and the 13 other Western nations that had the moxie to oppose this resolution. Though the stakes here are only symbolic (the HRC's resolutions are non-binding, thankfully), Canadians should be thankful that our government is taking a stand against censorship.
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