The High Cost of Insulting a Canadian Lesbian
10th June 2011
On April 20th of this year, a group called the BCHRT (British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, a sort of maple-syrup-flavored version of a Stalinist show-trial committee) fined stand-up comedian Guy Earle $15,000 for offending a lesbian woman, Lorna Pardy, from the stage at an open-mike comedy night back in 2007. The owners of the club which hosted the offending performance were also fined $7,500.
Thank God you don’t live in Canada. Canada is what the U.S. would look like had the American Revolution failed, a prospect more dreadful than any other I can think of.