Ban Them All!

Freespeechers The Arts We Are All Treaty People 9 Comments

I’m not sure what’s worse: the over the top rants regarding either minor or non-existent misunderstandings of Australian aborigine culture in a children’s book, or the abject, groveling apologies from the author and publisher.

Prominent First Nations writers have also criticised the book, accusing Oliver of engaging in cultural appropriation, and his publisher, Penguin Random House UK, of making serious errors in judgment.

The award-winning Kooma and Nguri author Cheryl Leavy, who specialises in nonfiction, poetry and children’s literature, told Guardian Australia she was troubled by the book’s themes of child slavery and child stealing, and the appropriation of culture for personal gain.

“There is no space in Australian publishing (or elsewhere) for our stories to be told through a colonial lens, by authors who have little if any connection to the people and place they are writing about.”

Regulating The Regulators

Freespeechers New Rules The Tolerant Left 15 Comments

There’s no point whining about the left’s capture of institutions if you’re not prepared to take them back.

The Alberta government has proposed a review of professional regulatory bodies and how to better protect the right to free expression. In a video announcing the review, to be followed by new legislation next year, Premier Smith said, “What a doctor or lawyer believes or says about politics or religion is not a reflection of their competency to practice medicine or law.”

We don’t have details yet about what this review or legislation will look like, but Premier Smith is absolutely correct to be concerned with the expanded claims by professional regulators to police the off-duty and non-practice related speech of their members. To be clear, these proposals are not restricting the power of regulators to discipline doctors who claim vaccines contain 5G microchips, or accountants who sexually harass clients, or lawyers who hire private surveillance to stalk judges in their cases. This is about regulators claiming authority to silence the political, cultural, social, and religious opinions of their members.

I’ve written extensively on the topic of free speech and professional regulation, including in a paper published by the MacDonald Laurier Institute. Every Canadian has a constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of expression, including those in regulated professions. Many Canadians are part of regulated professions and have felt the chill of saying things that may be unpopular, even when unrelated to their professional work as a doctor, lawyer, nurse, or accountant.

This is an essential legislative step that needs to be duplicated here, and it needs some teeth: high dollar penalties for regulators that abuse their power, and restitution to the wrongly targeted.

A Tale of Two Nations

Republicans The Libranos Trump 17 Comments

February 2022: Canada  >>>  November 2024: America

In both cases, the people of these two great nations were suffering under the repressive policies of their respective tyrannical regimes. In both cases, it was clear that the policies enacted by these regimes were clearly not in the best interests of the people, but instead only serving the global elites. In both cases, the tyrants were using lawfare and other nefarious schemes to go after patriotic citizens whose only “crime” was to dare speak out against their supposed democratic leaders.

Canadians have yet to rid themselves of the loathsome Trudeau/Singh cabal. But Americans appear to have completed Step One to extricate the grip of the UniParty Globalist Tyrants from the levers of power. Many more steps will be required, so all freedom-loving patriots must remain vigilant.

Update: Matt Walsh provided a brilliant summary of what occurred on Nov. 5th.  Much of what he said will resonate with Canadian voters.

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