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Canadian Civil Liberties Association: Paul Fromm

The Canadian Immigration Forum Dept: In one case , two spokespeople from the Canadian Immigration Forum were barred from speaking at the Commons immigration committee Wednesday because content on their website was deemed offensive -- including an interview with Canadian white supremacist Paul Fromm, according to CBC. The issue of restricting debate on abortion has come up before in other areas -- on Canadian campuses, for example. The pro-choice Canadian Civil Liberties Association has spoken out against barring pro-life advertising and activities at universities as a violation of free speech and the right for MPs to say and discuss almost anything they want is one of the central privileges of Parliament, but a couple of divisive debates over the past week tested the thresholds of dialogue in the House of Commons. In the other, the NDP criticized Prime Minister Stephen Harper for allowing Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth to put forward Motion 312 , a controversial proposal that sought to re-examine how Canadian law defines a human being. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.