'Thanks For Not Making Me Canadian'

On the cusp of Thanksgiving, an American gives thanks that he lives in a land that has a First Amendment to safeguard his free speech, and not in Canada which has no such protections (and where, as a consequence, the freedom to speak is being eroded by the minute--in no small part due to the "human rights" racket and its champions, one of whom just scored a victory over free speech blabbermouth Ezra Levant):

Levant, wisely, hasn’t said a word about the verdict. Neither have many of other Canadian bloggers from whom we’d expect to hear after a travesty like this. They’re probably taking stock of their options, with their lawyers, because they’re being sued by the censors themselves.

And that’s the point. Vigna didn’t file this suit to salvage his reputation. A prosecutor who would beg off from trial by whining about his inner feelings will have no reputation to save once word gets out. Vigna filed this suit to stifle Levant’s legitimate criticism of his agency and his methods. To make an example of Levant, and to warn more timid souls who would dare to criticize the censors of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. To censor an inconvenient critic who couldn’t be silenced by the usual accusation of hate speech.

And so I sit here, safe in my American home, writing of Ezra Levant’s misfortune in living in a country where he could be bankrupted for making a small mistake of fact in criticizing the actions of a government official. A government official who could sue me for saying many of the same things, had I the misfortune to live in his miserable country.

Oh, it's not so bad, really. We have all that "diversity" and "multiculturalism" and those "Somali mentorship programs" to talk about if and when the censors get their knickers in a knot 'cause we're speaking "hate" (i.e. criticizing censorship, the "human rights" juggernaut, the jihad imperative and/or Jennifer Lynch's spending habits).