It’s been more than a week since MPP Sarah Jama was booted from the Ontario NDP caucus and censured by the Ontario government for daring to name Israel as an Apartheid state. It’s been more than a week since CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn agreed to

freedom of speech is not an exclusively legal term

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Both the article in the OP, and the comment you’re responding to are using it in the legal sense.

unless i am failing to understand what is being said the article is saying otherwise.

For them, free speech is freedom for them to collect a paycheque while saying the most boring, obvious, cliché, bootlicking shit they can come up with. That is free speech — the right to do these things with minimal government involvement.

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You’re misunderstanding something then.

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