…he was there to charge the National Citizens Coalition, the group I worked for at the time with a crime.
And the crime, according to the police was that the NCC violated what we called the “election gag law.”
The reason I want to discuss this legal tiff this morning is that illustrates why gag laws are wrong, why gag laws are dangerous and why all Canadians who cherish free speech should work to have gag laws repealed.