Levant Gets Smackdown for Trying to 'Denormalize' the Kooky Canadian 'Norm'

The verdict is in in the Vigna v. Levant case and, as the National Post's Joseph Brean reports, Levant has lost (and so, in many ways, have we):

A judge has ordered free speech activist Ezra Levant to pay $25,000 to Giacomo Vigna, a Canadian Human Rights Commission lawyer, for libelling him with "reckless indifference" to the truth in blog posts about a major hate speech case.

By accusing Mr. Vigna -- who once represented the CHRC in the prosecution of Freedomsite.orgwebmaster Marc Lemire -- of lying to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, switching critical evidence, failing to honour a promise to the Tribunal chair, and being fired, Mr. Levant "spoke in reckless disregard of the truth and for an ulterior purpose of denormalizing the Human Rights Commission across Canada which makes his statements malicious in that sense." Mr. Justice Robert Smith also ordered Mr. Levant to remove the libellous materials from his website within 15 days. They remained there Friday night, and Mr. Levant said he is getting advice from his lawyers about an appeal...

So now it's a crime to say mean things about the "Human Rights" Commission, to seek to "denormalize" a racket you believe is not a normal part of a democracy, one that is doing grievous and permanent injury to our body politic?

Good to know. And so much like a sharia edict that it makes one's head spin.