In Canada, free speech has its
restrictions by Steve Pearlstein, Washington
Post, December 12, 1999.
This striking article is an example of how
much of the best journalism is
ignorance-broking, broking between relative
levels of ignorance, since the facts are well
known to anyone active in Canadian journalism,
particularly on the right. I discussed them in
in my 1986 book The Patriot Game: Canada and the
Canadian Question Revisited, drawing a
parallel with Roland Huntford's seminal study of
Swedish political correctness, The
New Totalitarians. How could this happen to
a nice country like Canada? Well, read my book.
But one reason is that the country's deep ethnic
division between French and English has allowed
the political left unnatural power, like a
circus stuntman riding two horses in tandem.
Imported ethic divisions bid fair to do the same
in the U.S. - Peter Brimelow
