State of Freedom in Canada: I agree with Adam somewhat. Freedom is always threatened and our current prime minister StepHen Harper continues to encroach. In terms of access to information, the current government has severely limited information gathering. There has been talk for some time about our current government muzzling scientists. Today, as it turns out, the information commissioner has launched an investigation into this exact thing. We still have an information commissioner who is supposed to independently investigate complaints against the government. As freedoms are potentially eroded to supposedly ensure other freedoms (that is, peek into private email to root out potential terrorists), there is a pushback by others who are still awake to potential injustice. Running a government, a company, or a school is a difficult messy business. We make decisions based on incomplete information always.