Forward this one to your MLA and industry ministers: this is legislation worth checking into.
The Property Protection Act was passed to protect businesses from those who obtain a job to attack their employer. The bill’s purpose is to make it unlawful to seek employment at a business if you have no intention of holding the job, but are instead using the position for (what essentially amounts to) espionage.
While the bill applies to all industries in North Carolina, HSUS is taking this very personally because it will potentially outlaw one of its favorite pastimes–sneakily getting hired onto farms and surreptitiously shooting video.
This could be a big blow to PETA as well who often send in their wanks to some meat packing plant or farm to take videos of photos for some money making campaign
Funny. Canadians need Property Protection Acts too. But for a different purpose. We need it to protect us from our own governments because our much-vaunted Charter is absolutely silent on the subject.
And yes, I know….it was tat dirty rotten Turdo’s fault. But the Conservatives (at both federal and provincial levels) have had multiple opportunities to address the Charter’s deficiency by bringing forth property rights legislation – but instead, they go and hide whenever the subject is mentioned.
This seems like superfluous, unnecessarily targeted law. Is industrial espionage not already illegal? Is there no existing legislation that covers non-disclosure, trade secrets, company confidential information? Are there no laws against libel?
you do know that trudeau and trudeau the younger were and are lawyers. our sad excuse for a constitution was written by lawyers, for lawyers, and only lawyers benefit from it. oh, the scoc as well because they can now override parliament. what a bunch of schysters.
I was not aware that shiny pony was a lawyer……a substitute drama coach perhaps…
Young Turdeau is definitely not a lawyer – drama teacher and drama queen
That legislation would probably also reduce the number of muslim workplace human rights complaints.
I read of one incedent where some so called tourists was cuaght ina meat packing plant somewhere a few years ago with a hidden camera on them they were part of some animal extremists group planing a nighttime raid on the place they were photographing where the plants hidden cameras were they confiscated and destroyed the film
correct. he is so far left I thought he was a lawyer.
No point forwarding this in Alberta. (cough)
1:20pm Eastern Time Friday May 29th:
I’m currently in Apex, NC (= suburban Raleigh, the state capital) and NC Governor McCrory vetoed this bill this morning. It passed easily in the legislature but he has vetoed it. What’s particularly disappointing is that he’s a Republican, not a typical loony left Democrat.
ANIMAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES NEED NOT APPLY