The Warman Chronicles

Richard Warman, past employee of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and serial litigant under human rights legislation in our country, has launched new lawsuits against 5 Canadian bloggers. Not only does he want them forever silenced, he also wants them to pay him money for alleged harm their words have caused him.

You can read more about this here and here and here.

Whatever your political stripe, if you are Canadian and don't find this extremely scary then you & I are living on different planets. Each one of these defendants, with the possible exception of Jonathan Kay at the National Post, will have to use their own money to defend themselves. And the cost to Warman? Absolutely nothing. I will be watching developments on this file with extreme attention.

Richard Warman has been described by Mark Steyn as "the most sensitive man in Canada". You can read more about Warman here.