...just to reassure myself as I can reassure you that Canadians can have pride in all of the employees of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the way we carry out our complex mandate.

Ms Lynch, let me stop you there. That's not an answer to my question.

This exchange (click the YouTube clip) with Joe Comartin, the NDP MP, at yesterday's Committee hearing summed up Commissar Lynch's strategy. Asked specific questions by Mr Comartin, she retreated to ever more expansive generalities. When he queried whether she was embarking on civil action against Ezra Levant and me, she replied that "we are leaders and catalysts in advancing equality in Canada and in fact internationally." I gues that explains all the lunches in Geneva and Dublin but it seems an odd response to a very specific line of questioning. By this stage, Commissar Lynch seemed to be repeating a handful of stale bromides in entirely random order. I think Ezra is right, and that her preferred mode of condescension and transparent evasion (occasionally enlivened by entirely false assertions on such specifics as the RCMP) was not a wise move.

Jesse Ferreras has more on the day's events, as do The Interim and the Moose & Squirrel, with a big round-up at the Lynch Mob.

[UPPERDATE: Marc Lemire has asked to be invited to testify.] 

[UPDATE: "Canada's Schoolmarm." The "TM" after the "QC" is a nice touch: I was interested to discover via a FOI request that the Chief Commissar signs herself "Jennifer Lynch, QC". I know many QCs, including my brother-in-law, but they don't use the post-nominal in their signature.]