In the final episode of season two, you’ll hear a recording of a Centre for Constitutional Studies Event from the summer of 2024, titled ‘This Ain’t Texas, It’s Tiktok.’ The event features a discussion with Jameel Jaffer, Executive Director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and Emily Laidlaw, Associate Professor Law at the University of Calgary and Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity Law. With Dax moderating, Jameel and Emily discuss the regulation of big tech platforms and the different law and policy environments between Canada and the United States.

In this episode, Dax speaks with Sabreena Delhon, Chief Executive Officer of the Samara Centre for Democracy. They discuss some of the threats faced by elected officials in Canada online and in person, the roots of our contemporary discontent, the fine line between free expression and a hostile public environment, and some ideas for strengthening Canadian democracy, among other things.

In this episode, Dax speaks with David Schneiderman, Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Toronto. They discuss the culture of free expression in Canada, the relative absence of scholarship examining free expression, the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence, major threats to free expression, university protest encampments, and the relevance of the Charter on campus, among other things. He also asks him about what he misses about the Centre for Constitutional Studies, as someone who helped build the centre we have today.