Orwellian indeed. Most troubling to me is that the Law Society’s bizarre rule seems reflective of a larger tendency in Canadian society away from true liberal democratic values, and towards some vague and vaporous world of rules and laws that prescribe and/or prohibit not just everything we do, but also what we think. 

Unfettered by any concept of individual freedom, the ubiquitous and noisy advocates of “social justice” would see every one of their causes enshrined somehow in law. And our governments seem eager to accommodate.

Are Voltaire, Burke, Mill, Locke and Jefferson now on a banned list of authors?