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“NDP Vice-President Morgane Oger intends on creating a ‘Canadian Atlas of Populist Extremism (CAPE)’ to map extremist groups, individuals and incidents across Canada… the B.C. Civil Liberties Association has warned that while the tool might be useful it would come with a host of privacy rights issues… ‘All kinds of things that people think are hateful constitute genuine political speech,’ said policy director Michael Vonn pointing to the example of immigration policy criticism… without a proper model there are legal issues around posting the personal information of private citizens online on a ‘hate map’.” – Cosmin Dzsurdzsa, “Morgane Oger’s “hate map” might have privacy issues: B.C. Civil Liberties Association” – The Post Millennial, March 22nd, 2019.

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“…Local Marxist student groups, such as Socialist Fightback, were immediately vocal about what they view as Ford’s ‘anti-protest laws,’ claiming the rules will muzzle their ability to protest ‘fascists’ and ‘racists’ on campus. These Marxist groups fail to recognize the line between demonstration and disruption. Freedom of expression and assembly does not protect someone who uses noise, physical obstruction and other forms of violence to prevent someone else from exercising their own free expression rights.” – Lindsay Shepherd, “Fate of free speech on campuses uncertain” – Toronto Sun, Feb. 10th, 2019.

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“But, I agree, passionately, with respected journalists like Paul Wells, Andrew Coyne, Chantal Hebert, Terry Corcoran and a host of others, who reject the Liberals’ bail-out as an unacceptable intervention that will compromise the independence of their craft… I share their opposition to the Liberal proposal of a ‘panel’ of ‘news experts’ who would distribute the election-year beneficence by deciding which newsrooms are ‘credible’ and worthy… and which newsrooms aren’t.” – Peter Kent, “Liberals’ $600 million media bailout lacks depth, fails to solve core problem” – The Post Millennial, Dec. 22nd, 2018.

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“…the truth is that merely holding and expressing nationalist, populist, patriotic or Christian opinions and beliefs is deemed a ‘violation’ because such beliefs have been subjectively defined as ‘hateful’… For example, PayPal announced it was banning Infowars last week because Infowars had ‘promoted hate and discriminatory intolerance’… In real terms, this meant that we had opposed the teaching of transgenderism to young children in schools and criticized political Islam.” – Paul Joseph Watson, “Big Tech has defined conservatism as hate speech” – Infowars, Sept. 24th, 2018. (This is a highly informative article, you can read it here.)

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“They have not taken on the issue of free speech, even when there are human rights courts fining people… and Universities regularly trying to intimidate and silence non-far-left voices. They didn’t support free speech, just so the Liberals won’t accuse them of supporting hate speech… The Canadian Conservative Party is afraid of being called racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, transphobic… (and) all the other phobias and isms that the far-left invented within the last 5 years.” (Emphasis added) – Siavash Safavi, “Unpopular opinion: How Bernier’s decision could save conservativism in Canada” – The Post Millenial, August 24th, 2018. (An interesting article, you can read it here.)
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“She (The president of Wilfrid Laurier University) built a Giza-sized pyramid of clichés and virtue-speak about something she was pleased to call ‘better speech’ – as opposed to that decayed old concept, hustled by the likes of John Stuart Mill, Voltaire, and the framers of the American Constitution, known as ‘free speech’… It’s only when progressives lose control of an issue that they agree to even have it discussed. This is then called a conversation… ‘We need to have a conversation’ is the white flag of the politically correct brigade.” – Rex Murphy, “Laurier, trading ‘free speech’ for ‘better speech,’ proves unspeakably clueless still” – National Post, August 3rd, 2018.

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