You are only allowed to criticize SOME things in Canada

The USA, Israel, Christians, Jews, conservatives -- That's about it.

"On Dec. 1, it was reported that 17-year-old Emil Cohen of Northern Secondary School in Toronto gave a speech at an athletic assembly and criticized the school's shoddy treatment of the soccer team. A teacher drowned out his speech with music before he could finish and he was subsequently suspended for two days and banned from athletic events.

Hey Emil, I hate to be a grinch, but if you plan on attending university then get used to it.

Allow me to elaborate. Last March, American author and Conservative pundit Ann Coulter was scheduled to give a speech at the University of Ottawa when she received a letter from Francois Houle, the university's vice president and provost, warning her of Canada's hate speech legislation. Her visit was all for naught, as a bunch of obnoxious loud-mouth lefties had police quaking in their boots (yet again) and the speech was cancelled.

A month later, a Canadian human rights group accused the university of "spying," when Burmese human rights activist Ka Has Wa gave a speech in 2007 that was monitored by university officials.

Also in April at the University of Calgary, eight students were accused on "non-academic misconduct" and found guilty of a "major violation" for erecting a graphic anti-abortion display on campus.

Not to be outdone, in November the Carleton University Student Association (CUSA) banned the pro-life club from operating on campus. CUSA said the group could regain its official status if it renounced its beliefs. I'm not making this up.

Then in November at the University of Waterloo Christie Blatchford had a scheduled speech to discuss her new book, Helpless -Caledonia's Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy and How the Law Failed All of Us, but the event was cancelled after five morons chained themselves to the podium with bicycle locks while chanting "racist, racist, racist," repeatedly. Instead of arresting them and hauling them off to jail, police stood around like potted plants waiting to be watered.

The spokesman for the group, Dan Kellar, dismissed the audience as "old white men" and "old white ladies." Isn't it funny how anti-racists demonize people not only on their skin colour but on their age, too? How multidimensional.

Still, none compares to York University when it comes to the suppression of political views. It's a virtual cesspool of censorship. In February, Daniel Pipes, an American scholar on the Middle East, had a speech cancelled. Yet, in early November, George Galloway, a former British MP infamous for his support of terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbolloah, appeared at York U. with nary an interruption. Actually, there was a slight interruption when York's president threatened to sue a rabbi who had encouraged people not to attend the lecture.

The school had previously embarrassed itself when it cancelled planned speeches by Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu. Which isn't surprising, given York U hosts the annual Israeli Apartheid Week, an odious and vile hatefest of anti-Semitism.

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