clipped from: www.theaustralian.news.com.au   

To be in breach of these hate speech provisions you don't need to say something untrue; you don't need to actually subject some group or person to hatred or contempt; you don't have to counsel violence. You only need to say something that the people who are chosen to staff these commissions -- and, trust me, this is not a representative cross-section of Canadian society, but more like the most ultra-PC university professor you know -- happen to think is likely to expose some group or person to hatred or contempt.


Once the commission thinks that, it can fine you, order you to pay money to those who complained, force you to apologise, and more.

That picture of an Orwellian nightmare, a nightmare where you can say something that is wholly true, and you can prove it is true, and yet you can be severely punished and stifled and forced to issue a bogus apology by hack bureaucrats, is the one that was and is facing Mark Steyn in Canada.