Next Canadian Prime Minister supports gag laws

Gerry Nicholls writes:

Recall in 2000 it was Prime Minister Jean Chretien who imposed the infamous election gag law on Canadians — the law which makes it a crime for citizens to spend their own money to express their own views during federal election.

That was bad enough.

Now Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff wants to extend that gag law so that it also covers the period three months prior to the election.