Guilty Or Not — You'll End Up Broke Anyway

Finally - some good news and a great victory for freedom of speech. Ezra Levant is off the hook. Alberta "human rights" commission dismissed the complaint. But there's still the matter of legal costs. This whole "human rights" farce was quite costly for Ezra Levant, let alone the taxpayers. The only one who got away without paying a dime was the complainer.

Some 900 days after I became the only person in the Western world charged with the “offence” of republishing the Danish cartoons of Muhammad, the government has finally acquitted me of illegal “discrimination.” Taxpayers are out more than $500,000 for an investigation that involved fifteen bureaucrats at the Alberta Human Rights Commission. The legal cost to me and the now-defunct Western Standard magazine is $100,000.

The case would have been thrown out long ago if I had been charged in a criminal court, instead of a human rights commission. That’s because accused criminals have the right to a speedy trial. Accused publishers at human rights commissions do not.

And if I had been a defendant in a civil court, the judge would now order the losing parties to pay my legal bills. Instead, the Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities won’t have to pay me a dime. Neither will Syed Soharwardy, the Calgary imam who abandoned his identical complaint against me this spring.

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So if you want to get back at someone who's hurt your feelings - just file a "human rights" complaint against him. Don't worry, you won't have to pay anything for it - the defender will. Guilty or not, he'll still be facing tens of thousands in legal costs... Just don't forget that someone else might as well file a "human rights" complaint against you.