Free speech on the march

Ezra Levant:

I’ve never been busier in my “real life”, so please forgive me for not blogging as much as I’d like to.

Ann Coulter’s tour was a huge success. For a day or so, whatever media discussion there was centred on Coulter’s own views. But the moment that Francois Houle, the vice-president of the University of Ottawa, sent Coulter a threatening letter, the story changed. It wasn’t about Coulter and her views anymore — it was about Canada, and whether we were a free enough country to let her express her views. The University of Western Ontario and University of Calgary passed that test; Houle and his street thugs failed it. But the result was the most intense week of free speech discussions in Canada since the Western Standard published the Danish cartoons.

If you thought nothing could top last week in terms of free speech news, then you simply don’t know Canada’s human rights commissions well enough.

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