Confiscation Without Conviction

They don’t need no stinking due process. They don’t need a justice system at all

A civil liberty group is sounding the alarm after British Columbia’s New Democratic Party (NDP) Premier David Eby announced a forthcoming new law that would permit the government to take away one’s property or goods prior to being charged with a crime.

The soon-to-be introduced “unexplained wealth order” (UWO) was announced by Eby on Sunday as part of a broader “public safety plan.” The government says the law is intended to target gangs and criminals who “profit on misery,” but experts warn that such a law would be a severe “infringement” on one’s constitutional rights as defined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. […]

While the full details of the UWO won’t be released until next year when it is formally presented to the province’s legislature, the NDP government has already attempted to justify the proposal by saying that the law would help deal with “young people [who] are attracted to gang life by images of fast cars, fancy homes and luxury goods.”

“By seizing this property from high-level, predatory criminal organizations and individuals, the province can take away this incentive and send a clear message to organized crime,” the government added.

This isn’t new. It’s an expansion of the BC government’s lucrative Theft Under $75K Program.

h/t Jim

49 Replies to “Confiscation Without Conviction”

    1. Yes, and they won’t be criminal gangs and mobs, it will be the weak. If I were an escort, I’d be preparing my defence; the government is about to become pimp.

    2. Have they named the company that bribed Gerry Dias with $50,000 for COVID rapid test kits?

      Why hasn’t Dias been charged?

      Guess they’re afraid of bad press coverage from Unifor members?

  1. The solution to every problem according to dippers is to seize property. From speculation taxes to flipper taxes etc. Give free dope to addicts, release violent offenders and seize capital from the successful. The results can be see by accidentally walking too close to the downtown Eastside in Vancouver as I did a few weeks ago. I ended up walking in the street with my wife and friends and finding the fastest way out of there.

    1. The Romanian cure to communism – I like that. I also like the Czech cure but the defenestratees all survived the second one.

  2. Classic… the Government creates the problem and then proposes to have the solution to the problem they created, perfect.
    Thats what I call a real Hitler move.

    The world-renowned criminal destination for international gangsters ( primarily china ) laundering dirty drug and human trafficking money ( “the Vancouver model”) all thanks to Government officials (BC LIberals) facilitating the gangsters desire, then a new Government ( NDP ) comes in and covers it all up with a toothless limited show “inquiry” that didn’t punish anyone or come up with any solutions to stop the criminals from continuing and even expanding their criminality, but now these same politicians who started the problem in the first place then turned a blind eye to its expansion and then covered up their own malfeasance with a fake “inquiry” are now going to come in a save the day with a scheme to “fix” the problem they created.

    Thats like some super Hitler shiznit right there.

  3. At least when the King did it, he could cite that he was doing it under the Authority of his Monarchy and God’s Will.

  4. I’m puzzled by how much Justin Trudeau’s net worth has increased. After all he’s just a politician.

      1. $85 million now. His father reportedly left his children a few million each. How does someone grossing 400,000 a year for a few years amass a fortune of $85 million?

        1. Please send us a link. I looked earlier (albeit quickly) and the most I could find was 12 million.

          1. Sorry Buddy. I tried to track down a better link. Justin appears in 2 with a net worth of $80 million but the breakdown doesn’t make sense. So they are unreliable.

        2. Steve – Pierre Trudeau was worth about 10 million when he died so the two sons would get 5 million each (Michel was already dead).
          So 5 million invested during the bull markets of the past 22 years could grow substantially.
          For example I went to work for Canadian Natural Resources in 1998 and the stock was 4 bucks and yesterdays close was 80 bucks …. that is identical to what Justin’s wealth growth looks to have been.
          The key is to have enjoyed the stock market gains and avoided some of the melt downs …. not always easy to do.
          Look at the fools who bet on Bitcon / crapto currencies recently and have had huge loses in the past year.

          1. Pierre had 3 children and a wife of course. I read he left 2 million to his kids and the rest to his wife but who knows. Also don’t forget that Justin was a drama teacher and ski instructor. So probably dipping into his investments. Not growing his saving as an astute investor.

  5. Not surprising.
    It works even better when you make what use to be a normal activity a crime.
    Targeting the citizenry.
    It’s what Canadian governments do these days.

  6. Shrug. When you can’t get more than a small minority of farmers – who rely on their land to feed their families – interested in property rights, what chance is there of this registering as any kind of a concern with the rest of the electorate?

  7. Side door digital currency.. If you cant flick a switch to shut down the ever expanding list of undesirables.. Flick another one to take all their stuff.. Trust the government to give a pass to their shady money, their NGO friends.. Red tape quicksand for everybody else..

    Reminds me of America.. When you get pulled over in a lot of states they ask if you have any guns or money in the car.. If you have a large amount of cash the police can take it if they FEEL its FROM or going to be USED in crime.. This money is kept by the police department to use as they see fit.. No charges, no paper trail.. Just gone, and the process to get your funds back is outside the legal system..

    Anything you want done requires cash.. The ability for the government to throw a wet blanket on situations they are not comfortable with or things they want to get a leg up on is not in the publics best interest.. Freedom Convoy funds?.. They justified that with the false foreign cash BS.. It wasn’t true.. If they have laws in place to do such things they don’t have to justify a thing.. The process becomes the punishment with all the boys and girls just doing their jobs..

    Im sorry, while protest is legal? in Canada.. The funds behind it needs a slow meandering cavity search.. Im sorry, while study is legal in Canada.. The funds behind it needs a slow meandering cavity search.. Just another tool in their toolbelt, right?.. Powers like this in a world where we are not all equal because of progressive politics is the height of bad policy..

    I guess that means they are going to do it.. Surprise, surprise, you don’t signal 50 feet before your turn.. Stupid stupid Canadians..

  8. This is great. If the tables are ever turned I’d just seize the property of all opposition party members until the investigation for treason and the now outlawed membership of said is concluded.

  9. L – The definitive expose´of B.C. Liberal/NDP alliance’s approach to profiting off of
    criminal enterprise. Otherwise known as “found money” with which to buy votes.
    ————————————————————————————————————————–
    Wilful Blindness, How a network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents Infiltrated the West

    “Billions of dollars in Chinese investment would soon reach the shores of North America’s Pacific coast. B.C. government casinos became a tool for global criminals to import deadly narcotics into Canada and launder billions of drug cash into Vancouver real estate. And it didn’t happen by accident. A cast of accomplices – governments hungry for revenue, casino, and real estate companies with ties to shady offshore wealth…, ”

    https://www.amazon.com/Wilful-Blindness-network-tycoons-Infiltrated/dp/0888903014

    1. Someone send that to Rich Coleman, the minister in charge of laundering drug money for the BC Libs (and ex-RCMP officer, I might add!)

    1. CJ, on that, I’d disagree.

      We have no charter rights. There, I’m amenable. However, there are rights that extend beyond those written by man. Whatever you envision He/She/It to be, there are natural rights that cannot be signed, nor legislated, away.

      1. Agreed!
        Existential rights are natural or God-given.
        Governments and their scribbles on paper aren’t anything more than lawyered toilet paper.

  10. This sounds like a suggested piece of legislation that will never actually be presented to the Legislature for discussion. It sounds also like something that would not survive its first constitutional challenge. I can’t see what process they imagine would work, who identifies the gang members if there isn’t actually a legal case in the courts? Supposing this ever got to the stage of being implemented, you can see an obvious catch-22, what if the identified gang member, not actually under any sort of legal process, is then charged with a crime, after his or her assets are seized? Are they then given back until the court case is over? What if the person wins their case (found not guilty)?

    I think that illustrates how elementary the constitutional challenge would be to this proposed law. Guilty until proven innocent is not or at least should not be a sustainable foundation for any law.

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