You should go out and see You Should Have Stayed Home. There are some things we, as Canadians, assume will never be obstructed; our freedom of speech, our freedoms of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression, our freedom from arbitrary detention or imprisonment and the right not to be subject to cruel and unusual punishment.

I was working at a summer stock theatre in Ontario when the G20 took place. I vividly recall being in a production meeting on Skype with a designer in Toronto. The meeting ended abruptly when the noise of the violence on the street became...