The nanny state

By Ezra Levant on April 24, 2008 9:15 PM | | |

Canada's human rights commissions are a manifestation of the "nanny state" -- where the government treats citizens like children in need of nannying. That's what most HRC cases are about these days: salving hurt feelings, throwing a few extra dollars (or a few extra tens of thousands of dollars) to people who can frame life's normal ups and downs as some sort of political grievance.

Here is a column I wrote for last month's Canadian Lawyer about a different kind of nanny-statism run amok -- in the form of helmet laws for kids on sleighs. I wouldn't mind such laws in situations where the state really was in loco parentis -- in an orphanage, say, or even on a school field trip. But these laws replace parents and their judgement with the state.

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