While our deepest national embarrassment is to be seen as weak, a Canadian's deepest embarrassment is to be seen as morally inferior, especially if its contrast to the barbarians in the south.

It is that dynamic that is working in Ezra Levant's favor as he defends himself from the Stalinist reeducation camp euphemistically referred to as the Alberta Human Rights Commission. As you might expect, there are not human rights in a Canadian human rights commission. Lee Duigon explains it best.

It derives its authority from a Canadian law that makes it a hate crime to say or write anything that might—whether it actually does or not is totally immaterial—expose some individual belonging to one of several favored minority groups, at some indefinite time in the future, to some unspecified kind of hatred or contempt. Because there is no substance whatsoever to such a complaint, there is no possible defense against it.

As an added inducement to thin-skinned prigs to take offense, the state will pay all the plaintiff’s legal fees. The accused, of course, must pay his own. The Kangaroo Kourt is not bound by law, or rules of evidence, or precedent. It is not obliged to consider whether anything the accused said might happen to be true. After all, the fact that some doofus says he found the defendant’s speech offensive is proof that it offended somebody and therefore must be punished.