As Canada wages war against the pundit Mark Steyn, Melanie Phillips, Spectator [1](UK), poses question does Canada still exist as a free and democratic nation:
The irony, of course, is that by this action
Canada is thus demonstrating that if any culture is incompatible with liberalised western civilisation, it is clearly‘s. The idea that certain arguments must not be made, and that to do so is to find oneself arraigned before a judicial tribunal, is the very antithesis of a liberal society. It is a symptom of totalitarianism. It is also doubly ironic that it is the Islamic world, through the Canadian Islamic Congress, that is bringing this action — since in seeking to suppress the view that the Islamic world is incompatible with liberalism, it is demonstrating with the starkest possible clarity the truth of that proposition. Canada
Background, Sister Toldjah [2].
Alas, poor Canada. We knew her well.