VANCOUVER—Efforts by so-called social justice warriors to quash unpopular or opposing views is part of a worrisome and growing trend of censorship in Canada, says a leading expert on free expression.
“There’s a very aggressive movement against free speech, particularly on campus,” said Calgary lawyer John Carpay, president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.
“If we don’t stand up to defend free speech and resist the trends, these trends are going to become more and more powerful.”
Carpay is a keynote speaker at the Canadian Freedom Summit to be held at the University of Toronto on June 28—the first of its kind in Canada.
Hosted by U of T’s Students in Support of Free Speech, the summit will focus on what the group says is an increase in the suppression of free speech in Canada, mainly toward guest speakers being shut down on university campuses for voicing controversial opinions that may be at odds with the current narrative. The trend also includes banning clubs that are deemed not politically correct.
