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Looks like Attorney-General Rob Nicholson may have picked the wrong week to sign up with Jennifer Lynch, QC and the Stormfront members of the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have begun an investigation into possible criminal conduct by the CHRC. Ezra Levant has more. And here's some background from me on the "human rights" Stormfront boys' shenanigans that started the investigation. (Incidentally, the CHRC called up Maclean's and demanded apologies over this column, but none were forthcoming.)

Will these lively developments form part of the discussion at what reads like the world's dullest schedule for a seminar on Canada's "human rights" commissions? Don't hold your breath - not with panel topics like "Can HRCs be made more effective?" - ie, can we separate even further from the norms of Canada's legal inheritance?

In other news, Point de Bascule, the lively Quebec website, noticed a revealing line in Le Journal's story on the Quebec commission on "reasonable accommodation" (of minorities and whatnot):

L'idée d'un projet de conquête islamiste a peut-être quelques fondements en Europe, mais pas au Québec.

Or in English: "The idea of an Islamist project of conquest has perhaps some basis in Europe, but not in Quebec."

Put aside for a moment the complacency about whether what's happening in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, etc can never happen in Quebec. If that sentence appears in the official report, due out any moment, that will be amazing. No phrase as explicit as "Islamist project of conquest" appears in my Maclean's article, yet I will be convicted of "Islamophobia" and "hate" by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal for promulgating a thesis formally accepted by the Government of Quebec's commission officially charged with looking into such matters. Maybe we should call Commissioner Bouchard as a witness.