In a novel development in my battles with the Canadian state’s thought police, Jennifer Lynch, Queen’s Counsel and Canada’s chief censor, is now complaining that I’m restricting the free speech of her massive government bureaucracy:

She also claimed that those who accused the CHRC and its provincial counterparts of “chilling” free expression with the prosecutions of writers such as Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant were themselves guilty of “reverse chill.” Harsh criticism of the commissions in the media had discouraged many of their supporters from coming forward to defend their missions, she said. Others who were brave enough to speak out had been subjected to withering personal criticism in opinion pieces and letters to the editor, so much so that “50% of interviewees for an upcoming book on human rights have stated that they feel ‘chilled’ about speaking up.”

Defenders of state censorship are too cowed to speak out in favor of not letting people speak out? Oh, my! Remind me to ask Sean Penn to host an all-star fundraiser . . .