Compelled speech is the new censorship

A few weeks back I was at a forum in Toronto dedicated to unmasking the perils of compelled speech. Specifically, the event looked at how Bill C-16, a piece of Canadian legislation adding gender identity to the Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code, forces specific speech with regard to gender pronouns.

It was the law that catapulted Prof. Jordan Peterson to infamy. Though his crusade against C-16 didn’t stop the bill from passing, it did galvanize Canadians to understand the perils of state intervention on matters of so-called social justice.

Before the forum, I sat down with National Post columnist Barbara Kay to discuss the insidious nature of compelled speech, and why transgender politics have become so central to the broader discussions of free speech and censorship.