The latest atrocity committed by this increasingly authoritarian government is Bill C-51. It amends the Canada Health Act to bring natural “medicines” under the same regulatory regime as drugs. In other words, herbs which people have used for centuries, and are available for next to no cost compared to drugs, now will be subjprect to clinical trials and government approval before they can be promoted for therapeutic purposes.

Before you think for a minute that this may be a good thing, consider that there can be no patents on such items and therefore no incentive for any company to pay for such trials. Therefore, this measure effectively denies Canadians the freedom to choose natural therapies by denying them information about such possible uses.

I am not into natural remedies. Occasionally using echenasia to ward of a cold is probably the extent of it for me. But I am into choice, freedom and reducing government intrusion. The Conservative government is into force, regulations and increasing government intrusiveness. This is all consistent with the CRTC’s recent signal of its intention to wage war against the relatively unregulated Internet.

So, this may be the final straw for me. I have said I would support the Conservatives for so long as they were moving Canada toward greater freedom and less government. I don’t believe that is true. I am fully aware that defeating the Conservatives means electing a party which is even worse (Liberal or NDP). However, it would be worse to perpetuate the hoax that the Conservatives are the defenders of freedom, liberty and individual rights while they are nothing more than political opportunists. If they believe the quest for Liberal voters is more important than holding onto the support of those who value freedom and democracy than that’s their choice. My choice, one I am still allowed to make, is to withdraw my support.

All it takes is some hand-scrawled gibberish in the form of a complaint to the Human Rights Commission and you face an inquisition in this country where your own fundamental human rights are called into question. The exercise of liberty, such as freedom of speech, can cost you thousands in fines from the tin-pot fascists who accept appointments to these hideous tribunals.

Ezra Lavant is a publisher. He published the now famous cartoons originally published in Denmark to which radical muslims took such offence that they began their usual campaign of physical and verbal violence. In Canada no one was killed, no buildings were blown up, because the Islamo-fascists among us need only sick the state’s thought police on Mr. Levant.

If you haven’t already seen Ezra Lavant’s videos of his inquisition by the ludicrously-named Human Rights Commission you’re in for a treat. Follow this link to Ezra’s YouTube page.

For more written by Ezra Lavant himself visit his site at www.ezralevant.com