Human Rights Commission Freedom of Speech Issue

The magazine Macleans was referred to a Human Rights Commission by a complainant for an article written by Mark Steyn. The human rights commissions are quasi-judicial bodies, which had been designed to adjudicate disputes in housing and the workplace where discrimination might have played a role. How did they come to judge what is permissible for a journalist to write and a magazine to publish?

Liberal member of parliament Keith Martin has introduced a private members bill to strip section 13(1) from the Human Rights commissions code under which section they are prosecuting Macleans.

To me it seems clear that freedom of speech inherently includes the right to offend others.

This point is illustrated by another guy who has been referred to a Human Rights Commission for publishing the 'Mohammed' cartoons. They were published in the Western Standard, by the publisher Ezra Levant.

you can read about his experience here