Dykstra: "Strong opinions are not dead in Canada"

Immigration Parliamentary Secretary Rick Dykstra told a gathering of MPs and Parliament Hill Staffers that he co-hosted that "strong opinions are not dead in Canada."

"Left or Right, you still have a right to freedom of speech," he said.

He noted that his Conservative colleague MP Brian Storseth, who is a member of the Justice Committee, has moved a motion that the committee study the Canadian Human Rights Act and there are hopes for a bipartisan examination of the hate speech section 13.

He thanked Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant for their work in promoting freedom of expression.