Alberta ‘gag law’ to get tested in court

I suppose there will always be governments seeking to impose new ways to restrict free political expression and there will always be people willing to resist.

The idea behind the billboard message, of course, was to criticize Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s decision to impose a carbon tax, writes Gerry Nicholls. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

February 4, 2019

OAKVILLE, ONT.—Some political battles in this country seem like they’re never going to end. A case in point, for instance, is the ongoing fight we’ve been having for decades now over how much of our political speech the government should regulate. On one side of this debate, we’ve had peop...

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