Chilling Free Speech in the Great White North

by Terry Heinrichs
American Thinker
August 31, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1622/chilling-free-speech-in-the-great-white-north

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Americans aware of journalists Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn are likely also aware that these two were hauled before Canadian "Human Rights Commissions" for supposed speech-crimes. Levant was pursued because he published the Mohammed cartoons, and Steyn, for, well, casting some Muslims in a bad light. Both men had their cases dropped, probably because they were articulate, famous, and had relatively deep pockets. Others who have been charged have not been so lucky. While such commissions stand as a serious threat to an open public discourse, they are not the only menace "controversial" speech faces in Canada

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