On Greg Hunter’s show last week I said something like:

If five years ago you’d asked me to name the country least likely to go authoritarian, I’d have picked Canada. It always seemed like a well-run place full of mature people with good intentions. So it’s a shock to see what’s happening up there.

To which a viewer commented:

“This guy doesn’t know anything about Canada, saying it was the most free country. It’s been a police state with little constitutional rights for over 40 years”

That was kind of the point, that in light of recent events I apparently don’t know Canada at all.

Two things up front:

1. Criticizing Canada is not praising the US by comparison. We’ve been shredding the Bill of Rights for years and are drifting towards civil war. But that’s a subject for another day.
2. I’m no expert on Canadian legal institutions or civil rights history, so might be misunderstanding the recent news. But I just googled “Canadian speech laws” and damn.

The inspiration for this note is a video posted by Substack writer Jessica Rose that promises to explain what happened. I haven’t watched it yet but will later today. Comments are welcome.