BC Transgender Youth Case: When Speech Is No Longer Free

People enter the B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver in a file photo. Lawmakers and judges decide what they will. But what about the rest of us? The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Commentary

Usually, public policy concerns what some leader or bureaucrat should do. But when the law and the government are misguided, decision-making falls to citizens. They must decide whether to stand up or cower, to speak up or remain silent.