/https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/politics/political-opinion/2020/11/11/canadas-federal-leaders-will-defend-your-right-to-wear-a-poppy-just-dont-ask-them-to-stick-up-for-your-freedom-of-religion/blanchet.jpg?w=1068&resize=1068,0&ssl=1 "Canada’s federal leaders will defend your right to wear a poppy, Just don’t ask them to stick up for your freedom of religion")
The great furor over the poppy ban at Whole Foods lasted less than one news cycle last week, thanks to the full-throated outrage from political leaders all over Canada.
Imagine how long Quebec’s secularism bill — which bans a lot more than poppy-wearing — would have lasted with similar shock and condemnation from those same politicians.
Sanctimony is never in short supply in the realm of politics, but we seem to have entered the season for freedom-of-expression lectures in Canada.
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