Defending free speech in Canada: Steyn & Levant

The Withering of Free Speech [Mark Steyn]

As some readers will know, Ezra Levant and I testified at the House of Commons in Ottawa a few days ago on Canada's Section 13, the "corrupted and diseased" (my words) legislation that licenses government apparatchiks to police the opinions of the citizenry. You can watch our encounter with Members of Parliament here.

Why is this relevant to Americans? Because the superficial fluffily benign language of multiculturalism that comes so naturally to our rulers provides a lot of cover for the shriveling of free speech: See, for instance, what the Administration and its chums in Cairo (that bastion of liberty) have recently been up to at the disgusting UN Human Rights Council. The indefatigable Anne Bayefsky is one of the few journalists even following this story. But I was struck by something Dennis Miller said to me on the radio the other day:

Read the whole thing. Then check the video.