Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. We must become the change we want to see.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. The Law Commission of Canada is an independent federal law reform agency that advises Parliament on how to improve and modernize Canada s laws. The House of Commons delegates most of the detailed study of proposed legislation and the scrutiny of government policy and programmes to its committees.