Canada jokes are funny the way WASP jokes are funny--the lack of self-awareness on the part of the joke target is what makes you laugh.
Currently, our Northern Neighbor is making news around the civilized world for its growing intolerance of diversity of views, including on matters regarded by some as fit subjects for satire. It is all done in the name of political correctness, of course. Apparently there is a new human right in Canada called "the right not to be offended," and it is being vigorously--almost relentlessly and ruthlessly--pursued by groups of official Human Rights Commissions that have been established at the national and provincial levels.
The witch hunts started on the subject of sexuality (of course) and then politics (a great subject on which a democracy should promote anti-free speech campaigns, right?). Now they are going after (hold your chuckles) the comedians. It's all good, I say, because finally the HRCs may have gone over-reached. Professional jokers are taken very seriously in Canada. After all, other than oil, gas and wood products, comedians are Canada's biggest export. Just ahead of beer.
Denyse O'Leary's Post-Darwinist news blog is a must-read for anyone trying to follow the battles over evolution and design, but now she has added coverage of the whole travesty of speech codes enforced by kangaroo courts, which is what the Human Rights commissions have become.
Read down a couple items in this link and you'll be richly rewarded.
Then, I have two cents of my own to add (currently worth about 1.9 cents Canadian): When governments set up grievance panels for any protected class, whether racial, gender or almost anything else, the people who want to be appointed almost always turn out to be passionate backers of one particular point of view. That is, they are ideologically disposed to see the complainant as always in the right. Who else would volunteer to serve on such a panel? Therefore, give these organizations real power, as has happened in Canada, apparently, and you are in for a battle if you want to preserve your constitutional rights.
Here in the land of God and Guns, at least, we have a Bill of Rights that courts usually feel obliged to protect against all well-meaning attempts to stifle the unpopular idea and to enforce the Common View. The Canadians (again, for my two cents) have written rights, too, but nonetheless are not as well protected.
But Canadians also do have great, square, normal common sense, and huge numbers of them already are rising up to protest the HRC's and the little opinion minders who run them. The HRCs lately are on the run for most of the most ridiculous cases they have brought. But it remains to be seen if popular opinion will come to see that the problem is not just bad judgement in one case or another, but the whole idea of having extra-legal enforcement panels that are allowed to act as prosecutor, judge and jury all rolled into one.