If a hearing officer agrees that this display violates the code, Owens could become the first modern-day Canadian punished by the government for citing the Bible. For the Canadian press, however, a more serious challenge to free speech is posed by a case brought by the Human Rights Commission of British Columbia against Douglas Collins, a former columnist for the North Shore News in Vancouver. The case has been appealed to the British Columbia Supreme Court. The electronic media operate under even tighter content restrictions. Mik'maqs call each other Indians.
Fishermen call themselves, well, fishermen.
Collison also used his show to stir up opposition to a program proposed by some school board members to eliminate homophobia in the city's schools. There is no way of escaping the mandarins of political correctness. Andrea Wylie, a member of the CRTC, disagrees. We use our power lightly. Wylie cited figures showing that the commission and its broadcast standards council took action in only about a dozen of the 14,000 viewer complaints lodged last year.