Veteran Liberal MP and former minister of justice Irwin Cotler makes his way to the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, February 5, 2014.Sean Kilpatrick/Courtesy of The Canadian Press / DLI Productions The new documentary First to Stand begins ominously. “We are witnessing a resurgent global authoritarianism, a massive assault on human rights, the retreat of democracies and the pain and plight of political prisoners as a looking glass into this historical inflection moment,” says Irwin Cotler, an international human rights lawyer and former minister of justice and attorney general of Canada. His speech about oppressive...