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The Law Society of Alberta has cited lawyer and media commentator Ezra Levant for remarks he made in a newspaper column about the Alberta Human Rights Commission and another barrister.

The citations centre on a March 2014 column headlined, “Next stop, crazy town,” in which Levant criticizes the Alberta Human Rights Commission’s handling of a case involving a Muslim man who claimed discrimination when he was fired from his electrician’s job in Edmonton.

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The column ran in the Calgary Sun and its sister Sun newspapers across the country. The Sun newspapers are now owned by the Herald’s parent company, Postmedia Network Inc., but weren’t at the time.

The law society citations allege comments Levant made in the column were “inappropriate and unbecoming” for a lawyer and violate the Law Society of Alberta’s code of conduct.

Levant doesn’t dispute he remains a member of the law society, but he argues he made the comments in his capacity as a media commentator. Sanctioning him for a piece of opinion journalism would set a dangerous precedent for freedom of speech and freedom of expression, said Levant.