Former Premier Brian Peckford and Freedom Convoy Organizer Tamara Lich have some profound words for all Canadians.
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I believe Trudeau has also warned Tow Truck Companies that the cops can now force you to help or face fines or jail.
Ya, none of this Covid shit.
Still isn’t enough big tow trucks that are available to do this. Lots of tow trucks and not so much for the much bigger rigs.
“Damn, all the tires are flat on our trucks now, the compressors are all broken down too. Oh, and the tires on our trucks are all special order and will take weeks to be delivered.
On top of that, our staff all is suffering from Long Covid and on Long Term Disability.
Shame we couldn’t help ya”
I laid off my staff and they are now on EI and I am closing the business.
Ping…
Ball in your court Tyrannical Government and banks.
Friend of the tow truck company starts a GiveandGo to help pay his debts.
There are now 6 Premiers that have said NO to Trudeau. Alberta, Sask,. Manitoba, Quebec, NB and PEI have all said NO.
Canadians need to start a mass call in of all Liberal MP’s and tell them to remove Trudeau with a Non Confidence vote.
What would be beautiful and righteous to see is EVERY SINGLE Freedom Supporting Member of Parliament & Senator, except those very elderly, to join the protest camp in Ottawa. Bring in well appointed luxury Atco trailers for them but THEY SHOULD BE THERE, interspersed with the average citizens. Equip them with satellite phones that cut not be cut off like cel phone services can and teach them how to livestream.
if, after all of that, Trudeau still sends his shock troops in, the historic record of Canada slipping into an official fascist tyranny, it will be documented forever.
Good bye Canada, was nice knowing you.
I didn’t think I’d live long enough to have seen two War Measure Acts happen in peaceful Canada. Now I have.
A least the FLQ did something. All we got is mouthpieces and keyboard warriors here. Alberta needs to separate and kick CUPE out.
For those who said this is PM Trudeau Jr. downfall, remember his father did the same, and years afterwards people still honour him, even got Dorvall airport I flew out of often, renamed after him.
So, too many latte dead weights in power and government and union jobs.
Unless Alberta separates, it is goodbye.
At least his father had a reason, two politicians were taken hostage– in Ottawa they were being kind loving and peaceful and that silver spoon trust fund baby got offended. It’s clear slime stream media and Trudope’s party prefers BLM violent protests to kind and loving protests. Can’t challenge the Low-rent-ian elites can ya. Going to be interesting watching judges tell Peckford what he had in mind when drafting our useless charter of no rights and freedoms.
His father didn’t have reason at all.
War Measures Act. High inflation.
The b@$#@rd is burning in hell as hot as Justin will be.
keyboard plant?
You never herd of the long game?
Let this go viral:
Justin tRUDEau’s Twitter account … March 31, 2020
“While many of us are working from home, there are others who are not able to do that – like the truck drivers who are working day and night to make sure our shelves are stocked. So when you can please #ThankATrucker for everything they are doing and help them however you can.”
Now go and THANK a trucker
The Bouncy Castles Insurrection…
He just can’t take it!
They want to escalate, let’s escalate. A nationwide general strike until mandates are lifted. Trudeau has crossed the line many times but this is the big one.
A targeted trucker strike at Ottawa would work as well: nothing delivered to the city until trudeauşecu ends his tyrannical bullshit.
It is past time to pound the email boxes of supporters and dissenters alike with the wishes of the majority. We cannot afford to let them pass the EMA without pushback.
Conservative party caucus. Please bring a non-confidence motion RIGHT NOW!
YES, that is EXACTLY WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN, but you know Liberal lites Conservatives in name only won’t do that……I JUST DON’T GET IT…………..there is NO difference between a lying LIEBERAL and a lying so called Conservative
Until they peel out the NDP, or a shit-ton of Libs, they won’t bother, because they know it would fail. So…not gonna happen.
The BQ was with the CPC today on the motion as was one Lib Quebec MP; lost by 30 votes. Legault and BQ have both come out against the War Measures Act. Lib’s have about 35 Quebec MPs. How do they vote on this? Quebec remembers 1970. Need to shake about a dozen more Lib Quebec MPs.
“The enemy of my enemy…”
mhb23re
“Quebec remembers 1970.”
The irony. You know who is going to remember 1970? Boomers. And, from the reading of many comments on this blog, boomers aren’t exactly held in high regard by some. And now they’re s’pose to come to the rescue?
NDP will support governing liberals. Both the Turd and the Singe are WEF members. We have an unofficial alliance… a defacto (and unelected) coalition government forming a majority in the HoC.
Where’s the mandate? We didn’t vote for this.
Bay Street just declared war on their debt-slaves.
Bay Street just signed their own death warrant.
What would a savvy investor do? I know what I’d do—sell everything I had denominated in CAD, tomorrow morning if possible.
You’ll note that Justin waited till after financial markets closed to make his move.
Bay Street can burn just as hotly as Main Street. The Banksters kinda forgot that…
Fag. You have already came out against truckers defending themselves. Thanks, now we gots your number, you pussywillow pansy at best, traitor at worst.
-signed, a certified, brand-new shiny GMT washout RCMP informer.
Aw. Did I piss in your cornflakes, tough guy?
”… a certified, brand-new shiny GMT washout RCMP informer”
You got the “washout” bit correct
mhb23re
Must go thru Parliament and Senate
Thanks Mr. Peckford for clarifying.
Do we have any reason to hope it won’t go thru?
The act comes into effect immediately without parliament. It must be approved by parliament within seven days or it is then void.
A lot can happen in seven days.
From what I understand, the Emergency Measures takes effect immediately. The government then has 7 days to bring the measure and their justifications for debate in the HoC. If HoC rejects the plan, the order is rescinded, otherwise implementation continues.
The key is that the measures take effect the moment the order is implemented, so the best case scenario is that we have to deal with the EMA for at least 7 days, and with the dippers supporting the libs, I can anticipate continued implementation well after the 7-day time table, unless something miraculously happens during those 7 days of debate to have the walls come down on the Turd.
Just curious. Has anyone asked Trudeau who will drive the trucks that deliver food to Ottawa if he chooses to unleash Canada’s mighty military upon the truck drivers? Trudeau is clueless & shooting from his hip. He’s on the ropes and knows he’s losing.
Hang on to your saddle horns, it’s gonna be Stalingrad part deux, baby!
“Do we have any reason to hope it won’t go thru?”
If 2 or 3 Liberal MPs had already broken ranks with Trudeau for his over reach I would not be surprised to see several more leave.
It’s funny, but I was reliably told by the media that QAnon and Trump would turn the country of my birth into a fascist autocracy. Yet somehow that achievement seems to have instead landed on my adopted home.
Who’s the dipshit reporter that lied about the gun confiscation at the end? I’d like to send him my thoughts.
Really, you could send that message to almost any reporter in the legacy media and it would still be on-point; no need to know the specific reporter’s name.
If I had to guess I’d say glen mcgregor
That would be my guess as well. The NCR is his current beat.
“You will obey the eyebrows!”
The eyebrows rule this nation with an iron….with an iron….uh…eyelash! Yes, that’s it. An iron eyelash!”
Brian Peckford did not sign the Charter and is not the last surviving person involved. More lies.
Bunch of frauds and grifters.
Hey Chelsea, I lost UnMe’s email address. Can you get it to me? I wanted to ask about those vouchers he said Tides Foundation promised to send. See you at the circle jerk on Saturday! You bring the pizza, I’ll bring the weed.
Masked
I’ll send you allan ASSholes e-mail, that’ll fill yer request!
Chelsea M: Do a tiny bit of research and here’s what you would find:
“Political Management professor and historian Stephen Azzi, writing in the Canadian Encyclopedia, draws attention to a little-known but markedly consequential contribution Peckford made to the Canada that exists today: his role in breaking the political log jam that permitted the patriation of the constitution and the adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982.”
In fact, Brian Peckford did not sign the charter/constitution.
Three of the four people who DID are still alive.
Other wise, a fine bit of research.
The actual Stephen AZZI article is here.
You might want to check your facts before you humiliate yourself again . Just a thought… unless of course you are yourself a fraud and grifter.
Ok, I’ll bite. Who did sign, and is still alive? Asking for a friend.
QE II; Trudeau I; Jean Chrétien, and André Ouellet
The most irritating aspect of the signing picture is the image of Gerald Regan leering over the Queen:
The jury in the court of public opinion rendered its irrevocable, un-appealable verdict on those allegations on the morning of Dec. 18, 1998, just a few hours before the actual jury in his criminal trial found him Not Guilty of the rape and attempted rape of three women. It happened after the jury retired to consider his fate and newspapers were finally free to report what the jurors had not been permitted to hear in court; that nearly three dozen women – babysitters, job seekers, law clients, party workers, journalists, a legislative page, even an oil company executive – most of whom did not even know the others existed, had all told police remarkably similar stories about how Regan had attacked them.
[…] https://web.archive.org/web/20200924004740/http://stephenkimber.com/books/not-guilty/gerald-regan-case-update/
I think that the old lawyer in that conference should nominate his loudest mouthed anarchist friend for PM, perhaps even use…gasp!…force to place him into power.
Brian Peckford. One of premiers
who signed the Constipation of Canada in the early
80’s.
This man should command nothing less than a 2
hour “Townhall” Q and A, on ceebeecee, ceeteevee
or glowbull.
To the Canadian veterans who selflessly
gave….My sincere apologies.
I look forward to the Trudeau fascist regime, painting former Premier Brian Peckford as “unconstitutional”…ha, ha, ha… 🙂
As Mr. Peckford correctly noted the 4 part hurdle to overcome the Constitutional Rights and Freedoms is set out in the Oakes test.
R. v. Oakes, 1986 CanLII 46 (SCC), [1986] 1 SCR 103
In R v Oakes, the police caught the accused, Oakes, with hashish oil and cash. They charged him with possession for the purpose of trafficking under the Narcotic Control Act (NCA).[3] He claimed that the drugs were his own and that he did not intend to sell them. At that time, under section 8 of the NCA, anyone found with illegal drugs was presumed guilty of trafficking. Usually, the Crown must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, but under the NCA it was up to the accused to prove that he was not guilty. This is called a “reverse onus”.
Oakes challenged the law, arguing that it violated the presumption of innocence guaranteed by section 11(d) of the Charter. The Supreme Court found that this right had been violated. They then had to consider whether the government could justify this violation using section 1.
The Test
The Court in R v Oakes created a two-step balancing test to determine whether a government can justify a law which limits a Charter right.
1. The government must establish that the law under review has a goal that is both “pressing and substantial.” The law must be both important and necessary. Governments are usually successful in this first step.
2. The court then conducts a proportionality analysis using three sub-tests.
a. The government must first establish that the provision of the law which limits a Charter right is rationally connected to the law’s purpose. If it is arbitrary or serves no logical purpose, then it will not meet this standard.
b. Secondly, a provision must minimally impair the violated Charter right. A provision that limits a Charter right will be constitutional only if it impairs the Charter right as little as possible or is “within a range of reasonably supportable alternatives.”[4]
c. Finally, the court examines the law’s proportionate effects. Even if the government can satisfy the above steps, the effect of the provision on Charter rights may be too high a price to pay for the advantage the provision would provide in advancing the law’s purpose.
In Oakes itself, the court considered that combatting the public health and safety risk created by narcotics was a pressing and substantial goal. However, the Court ruled that a “reverse onus,” where an accused is presumed guilty of drug trafficking unless he proves otherwise, was not rationally connected to this goal.[5] The Court found that it would be irrational to presume an intention to traffic narcotics when an accused only possessed a small amount of drugs. Having failed this first step, the court did not consider step 2 (b) or (c), and the law was “struck down,” that is, declared unconstitutional.
Legacy
The Oakes test is employed every time the government tries to defend a restriction on the Charter rights of Canadians. Some legislation has passed the test. For example in R v Keegstra,[6] the Supreme Court held that a law against hate speech was a reasonable and justifiable limit on section 2(b) of the Charter, freedom of expression. The test provides a mechanism for the courts to balance, on the one hand, the government’s ability to achieve its goals and, on the other, the protection of individual rights. This balancing test is now considered a cornerstone of Canadian constitutional law.
…
There is no evidence that the truckers were engaged in narcotics transportation; still less the heated exchange at the end trying to impugn the truckers with no less than GUN RUNNING. The later would undermine PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY rights…hence another unbridled smear job!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
// Has anyone asked Trudeau who will drive the trucks that deliver food to Ottawa if he chooses to unleash Canada’s mighty military upon the truck drivers? //
The same truckers that are doing it now. He not unleashing the military at all, still less on THE truck drivers. https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorkingTruckers
A dark day for Canada, indeed. One very small bright side; it’s not just Trudeau, but Trudeau AND Freeland who are now revealed as bunglers, showing nothing but contempt for ordinary Canadians. Trudeau’s finished and Freeland’s political prospects, even if she does replace Trudeau temporarily, are greatly diminished.
Pray for a 2 ft. snowfall in Ottawa and 90% of snow removal truck drivers calling in “sick” with the Wuhan flu.
Back in the day when T1 imposed the War Measures Act the dippers, with exception of 3 or 4 voted against it. Tommy Douglas was the leader at the time. It would not surprise me if the dips vote against it again.
Thank you Truckers and Premier Peckford for standing up to this attack on Canada. Denying Mr. Peckford’s view on the Constitution and Bill of Rights is like the US Left saying Thomas Jefferson didn’t understand what the meaning of the Declaration of Independence meant. Thanks for your sacrifice to bring the truth out.
ab
singh would have the turd by the balls. and would raise his (sing’s) profile on the national stage by a huge amount. Lets hope the sing is smart enough to play political chess!
Where can I get my ‘I survived the Bouncy Castle Rebellion of 2022
‘ Tee Shirt?
For those calling for a vote of nonconfidence (again) , call up your closest NDP MP and ask why they supported Trudeau in every nonconfidence vote so far. The answer is, of course, that their support is in the public sector and so they have abandoned the working class.
I believe Trudeau has also warned Tow Truck Companies that the cops can now force you to help or face fines or jail.
Ya, none of this Covid shit.
Still isn’t enough big tow trucks that are available to do this. Lots of tow trucks and not so much for the much bigger rigs.
“Damn, all the tires are flat on our trucks now, the compressors are all broken down too. Oh, and the tires on our trucks are all special order and will take weeks to be delivered.
On top of that, our staff all is suffering from Long Covid and on Long Term Disability.
Shame we couldn’t help ya”
I laid off my staff and they are now on EI and I am closing the business.
Ping…
Ball in your court Tyrannical Government and banks.
Friend of the tow truck company starts a GiveandGo to help pay his debts.
There are now 6 Premiers that have said NO to Trudeau. Alberta, Sask,. Manitoba, Quebec, NB and PEI have all said NO.
Canadians need to start a mass call in of all Liberal MP’s and tell them to remove Trudeau with a Non Confidence vote.
What would be beautiful and righteous to see is EVERY SINGLE Freedom Supporting Member of Parliament & Senator, except those very elderly, to join the protest camp in Ottawa. Bring in well appointed luxury Atco trailers for them but THEY SHOULD BE THERE, interspersed with the average citizens. Equip them with satellite phones that cut not be cut off like cel phone services can and teach them how to livestream.
if, after all of that, Trudeau still sends his shock troops in, the historic record of Canada slipping into an official fascist tyranny, it will be documented forever.
Good bye Canada, was nice knowing you.
I didn’t think I’d live long enough to have seen two War Measure Acts happen in peaceful Canada. Now I have.
A least the FLQ did something. All we got is mouthpieces and keyboard warriors here. Alberta needs to separate and kick CUPE out.
For those who said this is PM Trudeau Jr. downfall, remember his father did the same, and years afterwards people still honour him, even got Dorvall airport I flew out of often, renamed after him.
So, too many latte dead weights in power and government and union jobs.
Unless Alberta separates, it is goodbye.
At least his father had a reason, two politicians were taken hostage– in Ottawa they were being kind loving and peaceful and that silver spoon trust fund baby got offended. It’s clear slime stream media and Trudope’s party prefers BLM violent protests to kind and loving protests. Can’t challenge the Low-rent-ian elites can ya. Going to be interesting watching judges tell Peckford what he had in mind when drafting our useless charter of no rights and freedoms.
His father didn’t have reason at all.
War Measures Act. High inflation.
The b@$#@rd is burning in hell as hot as Justin will be.
keyboard plant?
You never herd of the long game?
Let this go viral:
Justin tRUDEau’s Twitter account … March 31, 2020
“While many of us are working from home, there are others who are not able to do that – like the truck drivers who are working day and night to make sure our shelves are stocked. So when you can please #ThankATrucker for everything they are doing and help them however you can.”
Now go and THANK a trucker
The Bouncy Castles Insurrection…
He just can’t take it!
They want to escalate, let’s escalate. A nationwide general strike until mandates are lifted. Trudeau has crossed the line many times but this is the big one.
A targeted trucker strike at Ottawa would work as well: nothing delivered to the city until trudeauşecu ends his tyrannical bullshit.
mhb23re
I did escalate. In Mexico.
From lefty Huffpo in 2014:
https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/trudeau-dictator_b_6314494
“Why Canada will become a Dictatorship under Trudeau”
It is past time to pound the email boxes of supporters and dissenters alike with the wishes of the majority. We cannot afford to let them pass the EMA without pushback.
Conservative party caucus. Please bring a non-confidence motion RIGHT NOW!
YES, that is EXACTLY WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN, but you know Liberal lites Conservatives in name only won’t do that……I JUST DON’T GET IT…………..there is NO difference between a lying LIEBERAL and a lying so called Conservative
Until they peel out the NDP, or a shit-ton of Libs, they won’t bother, because they know it would fail. So…not gonna happen.
The BQ was with the CPC today on the motion as was one Lib Quebec MP; lost by 30 votes. Legault and BQ have both come out against the War Measures Act. Lib’s have about 35 Quebec MPs. How do they vote on this? Quebec remembers 1970. Need to shake about a dozen more Lib Quebec MPs.
“The enemy of my enemy…”
mhb23re
“Quebec remembers 1970.”
The irony. You know who is going to remember 1970? Boomers. And, from the reading of many comments on this blog, boomers aren’t exactly held in high regard by some. And now they’re s’pose to come to the rescue?
NDP will support governing liberals. Both the Turd and the Singe are WEF members. We have an unofficial alliance… a defacto (and unelected) coalition government forming a majority in the HoC.
Where’s the mandate? We didn’t vote for this.
Bay Street just declared war on their debt-slaves.
Bay Street just signed their own death warrant.
What would a savvy investor do? I know what I’d do—sell everything I had denominated in CAD, tomorrow morning if possible.
You’ll note that Justin waited till after financial markets closed to make his move.
Bay Street can burn just as hotly as Main Street. The Banksters kinda forgot that…
Fag. You have already came out against truckers defending themselves. Thanks, now we gots your number, you pussywillow pansy at best, traitor at worst.
-signed, a certified, brand-new shiny GMT washout RCMP informer.
Aw. Did I piss in your cornflakes, tough guy?
You got the “washout” bit correct
mhb23re
Must go thru Parliament and Senate
Thanks Mr. Peckford for clarifying.
Do we have any reason to hope it won’t go thru?
The act comes into effect immediately without parliament. It must be approved by parliament within seven days or it is then void.
A lot can happen in seven days.
From what I understand, the Emergency Measures takes effect immediately. The government then has 7 days to bring the measure and their justifications for debate in the HoC. If HoC rejects the plan, the order is rescinded, otherwise implementation continues.
The key is that the measures take effect the moment the order is implemented, so the best case scenario is that we have to deal with the EMA for at least 7 days, and with the dippers supporting the libs, I can anticipate continued implementation well after the 7-day time table, unless something miraculously happens during those 7 days of debate to have the walls come down on the Turd.
The world is watching: https://instapundit.com/503572/
Just curious. Has anyone asked Trudeau who will drive the trucks that deliver food to Ottawa if he chooses to unleash Canada’s mighty military upon the truck drivers? Trudeau is clueless & shooting from his hip. He’s on the ropes and knows he’s losing.
Hang on to your saddle horns, it’s gonna be Stalingrad part deux, baby!
“Do we have any reason to hope it won’t go thru?”
If 2 or 3 Liberal MPs had already broken ranks with Trudeau for his over reach I would not be surprised to see several more leave.
It’s funny, but I was reliably told by the media that QAnon and Trump would turn the country of my birth into a fascist autocracy. Yet somehow that achievement seems to have instead landed on my adopted home.
Who’s the dipshit reporter that lied about the gun confiscation at the end? I’d like to send him my thoughts.
Really, you could send that message to almost any reporter in the legacy media and it would still be on-point; no need to know the specific reporter’s name.
If I had to guess I’d say glen mcgregor
That would be my guess as well. The NCR is his current beat.
“You will obey the eyebrows!”
The eyebrows rule this nation with an iron….with an iron….uh…eyelash! Yes, that’s it. An iron eyelash!”
Brian Peckford did not sign the Charter and is not the last surviving person involved. More lies.
Bunch of frauds and grifters.
Hey Chelsea, I lost UnMe’s email address. Can you get it to me? I wanted to ask about those vouchers he said Tides Foundation promised to send. See you at the circle jerk on Saturday! You bring the pizza, I’ll bring the weed.
Masked
I’ll send you allan ASSholes e-mail, that’ll fill yer request!
Chelsea M: Do a tiny bit of research and here’s what you would find:
“Political Management professor and historian Stephen Azzi, writing in the Canadian Encyclopedia, draws attention to a little-known but markedly consequential contribution Peckford made to the Canada that exists today: his role in breaking the political log jam that permitted the patriation of the constitution and the adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982.”
https://carleton.ca/politicalmanagement/2012/brian-peckford-and-the-patriation-of-the-canadian-constitution/
// Chelsea M: Do a tiny bit of research //
In fact, Brian Peckford did not sign the charter/constitution.
Three of the four people who DID are still alive.
Other wise, a fine bit of research.
The actual Stephen AZZI article is here.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/giving-credit-where-credits-due-rewriting-the-patriation-story-feature
// In Peckford’s account … // that is Peckford’s 2012 memoir.
You might want to check your facts before you humiliate yourself again . Just a thought… unless of course you are yourself a fraud and grifter.
Ok, I’ll bite. Who did sign, and is still alive? Asking for a friend.
QE II; Trudeau I; Jean Chrétien, and André Ouellet
The most irritating aspect of the signing picture is the image of Gerald Regan leering over the Queen:
The jury in the court of public opinion rendered its irrevocable, un-appealable verdict on those allegations on the morning of Dec. 18, 1998, just a few hours before the actual jury in his criminal trial found him Not Guilty of the rape and attempted rape of three women. It happened after the jury retired to consider his fate and newspapers were finally free to report what the jurors had not been permitted to hear in court; that nearly three dozen women – babysitters, job seekers, law clients, party workers, journalists, a legislative page, even an oil company executive – most of whom did not even know the others existed, had all told police remarkably similar stories about how Regan had attacked them.
[…]
https://web.archive.org/web/20200924004740/http://stephenkimber.com/books/not-guilty/gerald-regan-case-update/
I think that the old lawyer in that conference should nominate his loudest mouthed anarchist friend for PM, perhaps even use…gasp!…force to place him into power.
Brian Peckford. One of premiers
who signed the Constipation of Canada in the early
80’s.
This man should command nothing less than a 2
hour “Townhall” Q and A, on ceebeecee, ceeteevee
or glowbull.
To the Canadian veterans who selflessly
gave….My sincere apologies.
I look forward to the Trudeau fascist regime, painting former Premier Brian Peckford as “unconstitutional”…ha, ha, ha… 🙂
As Mr. Peckford correctly noted the 4 part hurdle to overcome the Constitutional Rights and Freedoms is set out in the Oakes test.
R. v. Oakes, 1986 CanLII 46 (SCC), [1986] 1 SCR 103
In R v Oakes, the police caught the accused, Oakes, with hashish oil and cash. They charged him with possession for the purpose of trafficking under the Narcotic Control Act (NCA).[3] He claimed that the drugs were his own and that he did not intend to sell them. At that time, under section 8 of the NCA, anyone found with illegal drugs was presumed guilty of trafficking. Usually, the Crown must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, but under the NCA it was up to the accused to prove that he was not guilty. This is called a “reverse onus”.
Oakes challenged the law, arguing that it violated the presumption of innocence guaranteed by section 11(d) of the Charter. The Supreme Court found that this right had been violated. They then had to consider whether the government could justify this violation using section 1.
The Test
The Court in R v Oakes created a two-step balancing test to determine whether a government can justify a law which limits a Charter right.
1. The government must establish that the law under review has a goal that is both “pressing and substantial.” The law must be both important and necessary. Governments are usually successful in this first step.
2. The court then conducts a proportionality analysis using three sub-tests.
a. The government must first establish that the provision of the law which limits a Charter right is rationally connected to the law’s purpose. If it is arbitrary or serves no logical purpose, then it will not meet this standard.
b. Secondly, a provision must minimally impair the violated Charter right. A provision that limits a Charter right will be constitutional only if it impairs the Charter right as little as possible or is “within a range of reasonably supportable alternatives.”[4]
c. Finally, the court examines the law’s proportionate effects. Even if the government can satisfy the above steps, the effect of the provision on Charter rights may be too high a price to pay for the advantage the provision would provide in advancing the law’s purpose.
In Oakes itself, the court considered that combatting the public health and safety risk created by narcotics was a pressing and substantial goal. However, the Court ruled that a “reverse onus,” where an accused is presumed guilty of drug trafficking unless he proves otherwise, was not rationally connected to this goal.[5] The Court found that it would be irrational to presume an intention to traffic narcotics when an accused only possessed a small amount of drugs. Having failed this first step, the court did not consider step 2 (b) or (c), and the law was “struck down,” that is, declared unconstitutional.
Legacy
The Oakes test is employed every time the government tries to defend a restriction on the Charter rights of Canadians. Some legislation has passed the test. For example in R v Keegstra,[6] the Supreme Court held that a law against hate speech was a reasonable and justifiable limit on section 2(b) of the Charter, freedom of expression. The test provides a mechanism for the courts to balance, on the one hand, the government’s ability to achieve its goals and, on the other, the protection of individual rights. This balancing test is now considered a cornerstone of Canadian constitutional law.
…
There is no evidence that the truckers were engaged in narcotics transportation; still less the heated exchange at the end trying to impugn the truckers with no less than GUN RUNNING. The later would undermine PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY rights…hence another unbridled smear job!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
// Has anyone asked Trudeau who will drive the trucks that deliver food to Ottawa if he chooses to unleash Canada’s mighty military upon the truck drivers? //
The same truckers that are doing it now. He not unleashing the military at all, still less on THE truck drivers.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorkingTruckers
A dark day for Canada, indeed. One very small bright side; it’s not just Trudeau, but Trudeau AND Freeland who are now revealed as bunglers, showing nothing but contempt for ordinary Canadians. Trudeau’s finished and Freeland’s political prospects, even if she does replace Trudeau temporarily, are greatly diminished.
It is now The Inconvenient Situation Act.
Thread on the Emergencies Act:
https://mobile.twitter.com/PardyBruce/status/1493376114319835136?cxt=HHwWgICyob3qxLkpAAAA
Pray for a 2 ft. snowfall in Ottawa and 90% of snow removal truck drivers calling in “sick” with the Wuhan flu.
Back in the day when T1 imposed the War Measures Act the dippers, with exception of 3 or 4 voted against it. Tommy Douglas was the leader at the time. It would not surprise me if the dips vote against it again.
Thank you Truckers and Premier Peckford for standing up to this attack on Canada. Denying Mr. Peckford’s view on the Constitution and Bill of Rights is like the US Left saying Thomas Jefferson didn’t understand what the meaning of the Declaration of Independence meant. Thanks for your sacrifice to bring the truth out.
ab
singh would have the turd by the balls. and would raise his (sing’s) profile on the national stage by a huge amount. Lets hope the sing is smart enough to play political chess!
Where can I get my ‘I survived the Bouncy Castle Rebellion of 2022
‘ Tee Shirt?
For those calling for a vote of nonconfidence (again) , call up your closest NDP MP and ask why they supported Trudeau in every nonconfidence vote so far. The answer is, of course, that their support is in the public sector and so they have abandoned the working class.