Canada can keep building up a culture of fear where the overly-sensitive are coddled and the rest are browbeaten into keeping their thoughts to themselves.Or, Canada can be the free, open society it's always held itself out to be
Voter-surveys show top issues this election being the post-COVID economy, housing affordability, and the environment. These are big areas of concern, it's true. But these surveys, commonly presented as a pre-set list to voters by pollsters and media groups, are missing an issue that is absolutely fundamental to our free, open, and democratic society: the freedom of political expression. This can't be lost on candidates and those critical of Trudeau's recently-tabled anti-"hate speech" bill—which, if the parliamentary vote on his bill to regulate social media is any indicator, means the whole Conservative Party and the heroic Jody Wilson-Raybould—and the issue has to be dragged into every stump-speech, debate, and election discussion before polls close on September 20.