Friday, March 26, 2010

What Do You Call Stephen Harper's Decision to Shut Down 3 "Human Rights" Offices?

I call it a good start. A Canadian union whose workers earn good coin courtesy us, the taxpayers, by staffing the "human rights" syndicate calls it, quel shockeroo, an attack on "human rights". Mark Steyn comments:

In a way, this is the logical reductio of the state ownership of human rights. In the degradation of Trudeaupia, human rights ceased to be (as they were in Magna Carta) restraints upon the King by the citizenry, and became instead restraints upon the citizenry by the Queen (Jennifer Lynch, QC). In her recent speeches, Chief Commissar Lynch has redefined "human rights" further into a synonym for her crappy bureaucracy. Now the "public" "service" union has come clean and admitted that in Canada "human rights" is defined as "jobs for life for statist hacks with benefits you can only dream of".
In other words in Canada, you measure "human rights" by the size of the bureaucracy...
Now, if only Harper would cashier Queen Lynch and end her reign of error...

Update: Oops. Looks like it was too good to be true. As Emily Litella would have said....

1 comment:

paladin3001 said...

About time the federal government showed some sense and leadership. This is what happens when we get the adults into power. I read the union's news statement about it. Of course anything a union says I take very carefully. This was an instance that I cheered.