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In the spirit of devil’s advocacy, Colby Cosh lays out the defence case

Andrew Coyne on why we should be wondering whether this government can be held to basic norms of civilized behaviour

Quebec experts in human rights say they’re facing a lot of questions about Canada when they travel abroad. “People ask us, ‘What’s happening to Canada? You’re nowhere, and when we do see you, you’re subcontractors for the Americans,’” says Jean-Louis Roy, who used to run — uh-oh, here comes a debate — Quebec’s human rights commission. His colleague Jacques Frémont offers a similar diagnosis, which I have also heard from European diplomats.