STAND with EZRA

Ezra Levant

Ezra Levant is a human rights activist, lawyer, author, TV host and dad. His campaign for civil liberties began in earnest in 2006, when the magazine he published, the Western Standard, reprinted several of the Danish cartoons of Mohammed to illustrate a news story on the subject. That act of journalism was met with a malicious “hate speech” complaint filed against him by a Pakistani-born extremist Muslim imam, who took Ezra to the Alberta government’s Human Rights Commission (HRC). Using taxpayers money, that government agency investigated and prosecuted Ezra for 900 days, with no fewer than 15 government bureaucrats and lawyers. Levant fought back, documenting the illiberal nature of Canada’s HRCs, and exposing the unholy alliance between domestic Canadian leftists and foreign-born jihadis. The videotape of Ezra’s interrogation at the hands of an HRC bureaucrat went viral. It was the beginning of a grassroots campaign to bring back freedom of speech, and the separation of mosque and state in Canada.
Ezra wrote a best-selling book about the experience, called Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights. The Writer’s Trust selected Shakedown as the best Canadian political book in 25 years.
Since then, Ezra has written other books, including Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oilsands, which won the National Business Book Award, and The Enemy Within: Terror, Lies and the Whitewashing of Omar Khadr.
Ezra is a columnist with the Sun Media chain of newspapers, and hosts a daily TV show on the Sun News Network. STAND with EZRA