National Post: Governments, by their nature, like to be in control. Freedom, for those in charge, can be an irritant. No better example of this is the invocation of the Emergencies Act by the Trudeau government. The Ottawa Freedom Convoy was a maddening annoyance that impacted people’s lives, but it was far from a national emergency, as a federal court and appeal court found.
Freedom of expression is a fundamental freedom “because in a free, pluralistic and democratic society we prize a diversity of ideas and opinions for their inherent value both to the community and to the individual,” wrote the appeal court…