speaking truth to power
Ezra Levant recently confronted the tutelary power of Canada’s administrative state in the person of one Shirlene McGovern of the Alberta Human Rights Commission. The former publisher of Canada’s Western Standard, Levant has been called before McGovern to answer the complaint of Islamists offended by the publication of the Danish Mohammed cartoons in the Standard. In his statement and testimony to the commission (here, here, here, and here), Levant shows the spirt of the free man resisting the tyranny of the administrative state.
This is remarkable for a couple of reasons. One, with Youtube, once anonymous bureaucrats are being exposed to the light of day. Two, lefties fancy themselves as the ones “questioning authority” as the ’60s bumper stick used to advise. Here we have publisher Levant bluntly telling this woman she has none.