Maclean’s writer dares B.C. Human Rights Tribunal to rule against him
VANCOUVER — The man whose controversial writing is at the centre of a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal complaint is daring the tribunal to rule against him.
Two members of the Canadian Islamic Congress filed the complaint with the tribunal over an excerpt of Mark Steyn’s book published in Maclean’s magazine in 2006, saying it was hateful and showed contempt for Muslims.
“We want to lose,” Steyn said Friday.
“We want to lose so we can take it to a real court and if necessary up to the Supreme Court of Canada and we can get the ancient liberties of free-born Canadian citizens that have been taken away from them by tribunals like this.
“We want those ancient civil liberties restored.”