Oh, I wouldn’t get so excited about one little Toronto Sun story, Daniel. What ought to be “contentious” about Ann Coulter’s first Canadian tour is that François Houle, the provost of the University of Ottawa, threatened to lay criminal charges before she’d even uttered a word on Canadian soil.

The reflexive position of the Canadian establishment (of which M. Houle is a very typical example) is to insist on ever narrower bounds of public discourse regulated by an ever more coercive state. If it’s a choice between that or the occasional bum joke by Ann Coulter, that shouldn’t be a difficult call.