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Bureaucrats boiling mad over Alberta independence billboard

Subhead:Ezra Levant and Cory Morgan discussed how a small-town bureaucratic attempt to silence an Alberta independence billboard triggered the Streisand Effect — and over $41,000 in donations in under a week.# YouTube-embed:0H4G6x5Bs2Q A billboard reading “Send Ottawa a message. Choose Alberta” went up near Taber, Alberta — one of the most conservative communities in the province. Then, bureaucrats received complaints and sent a letter to the billboard company demanding it be taken down. What happened next was the Streisand Effect in action. Cory Morgan, founder of the third-party campaign group Pathway to Independence, which was behind the ad, joined Ezra Levant on The Ezra Levant Show last week to talk about the backlash and the windfall that followed. “I don't think it's setting a good precedent if towns can start determining who may or may not advertise on private space during a campaign,” Morgan said. So far, the billboard company has held firm and refused to remove it. Ezra noted that political speech enjoys some of the strongest protections in Canadian law precisely because it serves not just the speaker and listener, but the democratic process itself. It was “sort of crazy” for Taber's bureaucrats to target a sign this benign, he said. The attempted suppression of the sign, predictably, had the opposite of its intended effect.

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