Support Ezra Levant against the HRC's

Love Ezra Levant or hate him, he has revitalized the discussion about free speech and the role of governments in promoting or limiting it. How one thinks of free speech in Canada and the world depends on whether you think the free speech glass is half full or half empty. Do governments give us the right to speak freely or do we naturally have that right except when governments take away this right from us sometimes or all the time?