Canada: When ‘rights’ trump common sense

last updated 8 January 2015

Mark Steyn

Maclean’s

Political correctness is putting hardworking Canadians out of business, said Mark Steyn. We’ve all been following the saga, now in its fourth year, of Ted Kindos, owner of Gator Ted’s bar in Ontario, who asked a man not to smoke pot in his restaurant and got sued for violating the fellow’s human rights. Turns out the smoker was disabled and had a doctor’s prescription for the pot. But when Gator Ted’s paid the fine mandated by the Ontario Human Rights Commission and prepared to put up a sign saying he welcomed medical marijuana users, another government agency told him he’d lose his liquor license if he sold booze to someone who was high. The courts are still hashing that one out.