http://newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/November2008/11/c7271.html
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Disgraced bureaucrat to crash Remembrance Day ceremony
OTTAWA, Nov. 11 /CNW/ - In a cheap publicity stunt, the chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission has announced that she will crash today's National Ceremony for Remembrance Day. Jennifer Lynch was not invited by the government, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. But that didn't stop her from issuing a crass press release boasting of her intentions to use fallen soldiers as a political photo op. "It's disgusting that Lynch is politicizing Remembrance Day," said Ezra Levant, a free speech advocate. "Remembrance Day is about the sacrifice of our fallen soldiers. It's not about some glad-handing bureaucrat giving out business cards and mugging for the cameras." "But it's worse," added Levant. "For a censor like Lynch to crash Remembrance Day shows she doesn't understand the sacrifice our soldiers made for freedom of speech." Lynch's brief tenure at the CHRC has been marked by scandal. This spring, the RCMP and the Privacy Commissioner both launched investigations into the conduct of Lynch's staff who hacked into a private citizen's Internet account. Lynch's staff have also admitted under oath to joining neo-Nazi organizations, and publishing hundreds of bigoted remarks on the Internet. "It's grotesque that the woman who approved of neo-Nazi memberships for her staff would show her face when we give thanks to the men and women who liberated us from Nazism." In her bizarre press release, Lynch doesn't mention the First or Second World Wars, the Boer War or Korea. But she has plenty of praise for herself, the CHRC and the United Nations. "Jennifer Lynch just doesn't get it. Remembrance Day isn't about her, or her pathetic attempt to rehabilitate the discredited CHRC. It's about our fallen soldiers. Greg Thompson, the Minister of Veterans Affairs, should order her to keep away from the ceremony," concluded Levant. - 30 -
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