Ezra Levant: “This has been a teaching moment…”
This has been a “teaching moment” about freedom and human rights in Canada. It’s reminded people that our freedoms are constantly being eroded, and that it behooves us — especially those of us in the ideas business — to be on guard. It was a lesson in the difference between real rights and made-up rights (e.g. the “right to not be offended”). I think it also gave many journalists in the MSM an opportunity to reassert their independence in the wake of their general failure to do so two years ago in the thick of the actual cartoon kerfuffle, when too many editors and producers censored themselves simply to avoid the hassle. That was an enormous setback for freedom; in that case, it was in the face of violent threats. Perhaps the new MSM boldness is because the threat is from bureaucrats, not terrorists.
We can win this fight, O Reader. Even one of the men who helped found HRCs in Canada now acknowledges that the human rights commissions have overstepped their original mandate and purpose, and have eroded the right to freedom of expression in Canada. That’s telling.
The freespeechers are gaining ground.
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