She is a lawyer by training, and writes the occasional, provocative and thoughtful piece in the National Post and this op-ed is no exception.
"Those who advocate laws outlawing offensive speech demonstrate a dangerous short-sightedness. They support the construction of a huge state apparatus devoted to ferreting out and eliminating forms of expression they deem offensive. But their underlying assumption is that the machinery of state will always remain in the hands of the good guys -- people they can trust to prosecute only genuine bad guys. They never seem to learn from history that things change, sometimes suddenly and in unexpected directions.
"If the bad guys ever get into power, the last thing anyone should want them to have is a ready-made state censorship machine. The power of censorship in the hands of a tyrant is a far more fearsome evil than any number of petty bigots writing contemptible letters to newspapers."
"Fortunately, Canadians' complacency toward censorship seems to have been routed recently, thanks to the untiring efforts of a few individuals such as former magazine publisher Ezra Levant and writer Mark Steyn."
