Conservative MP Garnett Genuis says Canada is under attack by populists bent on silencing views contrary to theirs, and calls on Parliament to resist the pressure and defend the country’s freedom of speech, association, and religion protected in the Charter before it’s too late. “I have worked extensively on international human rights issues, but nowadays, I see many stories from Canada suggesting that we are a country in need of intervention,” Genuis said in the House of Commons Tuesday. He cited a recent case of 16-year-old student Timothy Que at Eric Hamber Secondary School in Vancouver, who was barred from forming a club that seeks to share the teachings of the Catholic Church. “Timothy tried to start a Catholic club, a voluntary association of students who get together to discuss Catholic ideas,” he said. “But administrators forbade him from sharing Catholic teaching at the club, even with students who chose to …