I’d love to say something witty and creative about Canada and their human rights commissions, but I think Ezra Levant nailed it. Instapundit, as always, is doing an excellent job of keeping people abreast, including links to the video of the interrogation, Ezra’s opening statement, and more.

To quickly summarize: Ezra Levant was the publisher for the Western Standard when they published the Danish Mohammed cartoons a couple of years ago. Naturally, somebody got offended (a “Muslim” imam, as it turns out) and complained to the Alberta Human Rights Commission. Now the Commission is attempting to determine why Ezra published the cartoons and whether or not he meant to incite hatred against Muslims. Ezra’s argument, naturally enough, is that it doesn’t matter why he said it, he has the right to say what he wants.

I know I’m not stepping on any controversial ground here (not controversial, anyways, to those that actually subscribe to some of the values of the Enlightenment), but I, for one, wish Ezra luck, thank him for his strong stand against those bureaucrats, and hope he continues to give such stirring speeches. Maybe we should import him and let him run for President - heck, I’d vote for him.

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