They actually have a much lower conviction rate than 100%. As best I can tell the 100% conviction rate is a completely made up number. Decisions made by the Tribunal are posted here.
I only read a couple, but there are definitely people who've appeared before them and been found innocent.
1. If you want to quote the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms it also guarantees the "freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication" (Charter 1.2.b), which should defend what Steyn said.
3. MacLean's is not Canada's largest circulated magazine. Canada's Print Measurement Bureau does a pretty good job of keeping track of what are the top publications in Canada and MacLean's comes in behind Reader's Digest, Chatelaine and a couple others in circulation. (This is without counting the free magazine's that get given away which dwarf all paid publications) You can see the numbers in a pdf here if you like looking at statistics.
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They actually have a much lower conviction rate than 100%. As best I can tell the 100% conviction rate is a completely made up number. Decisions made by the Tribunal are posted here.
I only read a couple, but there are definitely people who've appeared before them and been found innocent.
1. If you want to quote the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms it also guarantees the "freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication" (Charter 1.2.b), which should defend what Steyn said.
3. MacLean's is not Canada's largest circulated magazine. Canada's Print Measurement Bureau does a pretty good job of keeping track of what are the top publications in Canada and MacLean's comes in behind Reader's Digest, Chatelaine and a couple others in circulation. (This is without counting the free magazine's that get given away which dwarf all paid publications) You can see the numbers in a pdf here if you like looking at statistics.