Yeah, Steyn's sometimes hard to take, like Hitchens or our Barbara Amiel. Their opinions provide a way of measuring my prejudices, though.
Where Steyn provided a service to Canada in the Maclean's cover story, however, is that media, libertarians and other interest groups are trying to change our federal human rights act which makes it a federal offense to publish anything that is "likely to expose a person or group or class of persons to hatred or contempt."
That's considered a vague and subjective limit on free speech---beyond the "reasonable limits" on speech envisioned by Parliament and the Charter--- which, in the above case, was used by the Canadian Islamic Congress to attempt to punish those who make statements or opinions with which they disagree.
We'll get it right the Canadian way: muddling through!
