“What we’re learning here is really the bedrock difference between the United States and the countries that are in a broad sense its legal cousins,” Mr. Steyn added. “Western governments are becoming increasingly comfortable with the regulation of opinion. The First Amendment really does distinguish the U.S., not just from Canada but from the rest of the Western world.”
I have added the emphasis to these incredibly important words, quoted in a New York Times article on an important upcoming free speech trial in Canada.
There are times when one must be grateful for those strengths America possesses that the rest of the world so readily condemns.