Canadian hate speech: victory for free expression.

• Author: Walker, Jesse
• Position: Citings - Brief article

Talk about mission creep. Established in the 1970s to stop discrimination, Canada's human rights commissions soon took to policing offensive speech.

In one notorious case, covered in reason's June 2009 issue, the Western Standard had to go through an expensive two-year process to defend its right to reprint the notorious Jyllands-Posten cartoons mocking Muhammad. The Standard eventually won that case, but not every defendant has been so lucky.

At least now there will be fewer defendants. In June the country repealed...