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Toronto Star Columnist: Don’t Speak, Or You Could Rupture The Common Good

We’ll hold our breath until Siddiqui tells us which goods are common.

[Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star] [Miller] calls the Maclean’s article “xenophobic,” and says it’s riddled with errors. He ridicules the Canadian Association of Journalists for its knee-jerk defence, given that the article may have violated the association’s own guidelines for fairness, accuracy, access and anti-discrimination.

People will always differ on what constitutes hate or where to draw the line on free speech. But most people would agree that free speech is not a licence to target vulnerable groups, let alone risk rupturing the common good in Canada.

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