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By MICHAEL COREN
By golly, it's funny when liberal-minded people become terribly self-righteous and bemoan the lack of free speech in Canada. Funny because liberal-minded people tend to be the most aggressive and intolerant of censors. In Canada we regularly have human rights commissions closing down websites and condemning and fining writers, and the CRTC telling broadcasters what they are allowed to say.
Mostly from one side of course. Almost without exception leftist opinions are permitted or even encouraged while conservatives are scrutinized or even gagged. Which leads to the positively hilarious scene of those same alleged liberals condemning a Roman Catholic school board that last week chose to remove Philip Pullman's book The Golden Compass from its library shelves.
Pullman is a talented author whose most famous book has been made into a soon-to-be-released movie. The book has been in Catholic school libraries for some time, but the publicity around the movie and the author has alerted people to the author's deeply held beliefs.
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