It’s a pleasure and privilege to appear before you in defence of the fundamental human right of free speech. But it’s the right word for any government effort to restrict freedom of speech except on the narrowest of grounds. And it’s an ugly word because it’s an ugly thing. It is that in the battle of ideas truth will prevail, and that preventing the airing of ideas undermines truth and decency. We already have too many restrictions on free speech in this countryIf taken seriously it means forbidding all but the narrowest of currently fashionable orthodoxies.

Source: National Post June 04, 2019 19:23 UTC