“The Government of Canada will — wrongly — take British riots as validation of their vicious suite of legislation to control how we use the internet here.”
The recent spate of rioting in Great Britain appears to have subsided. However as the smoke clears, two things are left to talk about.
First, could this kind of rioting happen in Canada? Answer, probably not and if it did, it wouldn’t be for quite the same reasons. But the kind of free-speech crackdown employed by Westminster is exactly what Canadians can expect the next time we want to talk about government overreach in — let’s say a pandemic response.
