Though comparisons to George Orwell’s work have come to border on platitude, they are apt in the case of Canada. Illiberalism has spread through its great northern expanses, perhaps ironically, via fiat from its duly elected (often liberal) governments. The decline of liberty in the great white north ought to serve as a warning to people in the United States of what is to come should we fail to quell the flames of progressivism within our borders.

While this may appear to be a harsh charge to levy against the seemingly tranquil nation of syrup jockeys and overly apologetic forest dwellers, the state of freedom in Canada is quite dire. Protections that many Americans take for granted simply do not exist in Canada. Worst of all, government infringements on human autonomy are often electorally endorsed by the Canadian people, to whom such things apply.