Last month marked the inauguration of a new concerted effort to fight against the erosion of free speech rights in Canada. The new Free Speech Union of Canada has officially launched its website and membership is now open.

Last year, the famed British free speech advocate, Toby Young (now Lord Toby Young) reached out to a group of us in Canada to see if we might be interested in creating a partner organization to the Free Speech Union, which he and colleagues had set up some time ago in his country, and which has since spawned sister organizations in Australia and New Zealand, among other locations.