Bill C-9, the Jew, Moral Panic, and the Fine Art of Spraying Virtue in Your Own Face

“What we fear is not the law, but capricious law.” Christopher Hitchens

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The Seduction of Virtue

Capricious means law enforced not by principle but by whim — law that descends when the mob demands it and evaporates when it is inconvenient. And that, alas, is the law Canada now worships.

I was at a Jewish advocacy event in Toronto the other day — three brisk, in…