Mark Carney’s Prime Minister’s Office has become famous — or infamous, depending on your view — for embracing British traditions. The National Post reports that the new PMO expects all documents to use British spelling. Staff are expected to dress in formal business attire. Anecdotally, men are expected to wear black shoes — so standard in London’s financial and political circles that there’s even a saying: “never wear brown in town.”

But Carney’s admiration for the U.K. seems to go deeper than dress codes. In recent years, Britain has become a poster child among western democracies for political censorship. The U.K.’s Free Speech Union reports that police make 30 arrests per day, 12,000 annually, for offensive online messages. Laws like the Communications Act 2003 and the Public Orde

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