A 'notwithstanding' clause in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that lets the government override it, as long as it's 'reasonable and justified'? The somewhat amusingly named Canadian Human Rights Commission, which can regulate what can and cannot be said publicly?
Canada's a pretty free place, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't have the well-thought-out constitution that America has, which means every once in a while you get things like the October Crisis - where habeas corpus was suspended, thousands of warrantless searches were conducted, and almost five hundred people were arrested in nighttime raids and held without charges, in some cases for weeks.
Americans really don't appreciate what they've got. Historically, civil liberties are the exception, not the rule, and there's certainly no guarantee they'll stick around in the future.
The American constitution is great but please don't believe the US is the paragon of freedom and rights; there's people held indefinitely held without trial, warrantless searches/eavesdropping, "free speech" zones during Irak war demonstrations, Guantanamo, death penalty etc etc so don't talk bad about Canada & Western Europe as they have a much better record of Human Rights.
