There’s no point whining about the left’s capture of institutions if you’re not prepared to take them back.
The Alberta government has proposed a review of professional regulatory bodies and how to better protect the right to free expression. In a video announcing the review, to be followed by new legislation next year, Premier Smith said, “What a doctor or lawyer believes or says about politics or religion is not a reflection of their competency to practice medicine or law.”
We don’t have details yet about what this review or legislation will look like, but Premier Smith is absolutely correct to be concerned with the expanded claims by professional regulators to police the off-duty and non-practice related speech of their members. To be clear, these proposals are not restricting the power of regulators to discipline doctors who claim vaccines contain 5G microchips, or accountants who sexually harass clients, or lawyers who hire private surveillance to stalk judges in their cases. This is about regulators claiming authority to silence the political, cultural, social, and religious opinions of their members.
I’ve written extensively on the topic of free speech and professional regulation, including in a paper published by the MacDonald Laurier Institute. Every Canadian has a constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of expression, including those in regulated professions. Many Canadians are part of regulated professions and have felt the chill of saying things that may be unpopular, even when unrelated to their professional work as a doctor, lawyer, nurse, or accountant.
This is an essential legislative step that needs to be duplicated here, and it needs some teeth: high dollar penalties for regulators that abuse their power, and restitution to the wrongly targeted.
Professional associations should not be legislated monopolies. Any 6, 10, 12 (pick a number) of qualified professionals should be able to form their own professional association and government themselves.
It is criminal that some of the best doctors and nurses have been dismissed over the last four years for giving the best medical advice.
(criticism of this is welcome; we have a big problem to fix)
Agreed, and raise that to include all guilds and professions. Much if not all of their monopoly-protected work can be done by the self-trained, or “clerical staff” (legal secretaries for example). Insurers would insist on appropriate levels of competence on high risk underwriting.
Talking about Guilds.
Seems to me Every Public Service Union & Professional Colleges of Surgeons & Physicians is guilty of this crap…Most notably during COVID. That would include EVERY Dr. & Nurse in the Country.
These Carpetbagging – Dues Thieving – Anti Semetic (_i_)holes did SQUAT for their membership during that time.. Passively accepting the FASCIST (Municipal/Prov/Fed), Govt’s Genocidal Edicts of the time.
For Alberta that was Nenshi/Kenney & the TURD.
I did what I wanted to do, go where i wanted to go:
UnVaxxed – UnMasked – UnRepentant.
Yep. Let’s strike a bureaucratic subcommittee, funded by provincial taxpayers, to investigate bias in regulatory bodies, all the while completely ignoring gov’t over-reach, interference & bias.
Perfect…
If “every Canadian has a constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of expression” why would Alberta need special legislation to make it so and even need to conduct a review first.
Yes, I know, the quoted phrase is just delusional wishful thinking.
Jordan Peterson is just one of the professionals under attack.
Follow Dr. Mark Trozzi. His experience with power hungry regulators is frightening.
But….he won’t back down!
I once told a regulator that I could find nothing in their policy document which mandated a specific kind of paper work which they claimed was a deficiency.
They told me — I am not making this up, or exaggerating — that it is in their copy. Regulators are in practice legislators because the alleged legislators merely set out some over broad and nebulous desired outcome and leave it to the regulators to regulate/legislate.
This is often referred to, unaffectionately, as the administrative state. It is a critically serious problem.
Paraphrasing Stalin, it’s not who legislates that counts, it’s who makes the R U L E S.
Eliminate them entirely. They provide cover for their diddlers.
Bringing back duelling would go a good ways toward ‘limiting over reach’.
Better yet,open carry by tax paying citizen only..no State Official shall be armed..
This would level the playing field between the Regulatory Bandits and their Victim Host.
Right!.“every Canadian has a constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of expression”
Which is utter BS.
Without the qualifier.
If your Government is not in a State Of Panic (EMERGENCY) and is willing to allow you to enjoy these limited Rights and Freedoms..you may kiss their ring.
Not Rights nor Freedoms if The Bureaucratic State of Thuggery can take them away.
British Common Law has been usurped by the Bureaucratic State,before which justice and truth are irrelevant.
Under the rules and regulations we have no right of appeal,no path to redress from the abuses of Righteous Fanatics in Government Uniform.
Look to our “Environment Laws”.
Killdozerman was only months ahead of his time.
When a minion of the state is accuser,punisher and final arbitrator, their victims,the working citizens know no justice.
And little personalities with delusions of Great Power, never tread lightly.
Isn’t that “right to freedom of expression” qualified, so that minorities and disadvantaged people have a some advantage.
From a post by David Clinton
1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.
(2) Section (1) does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.
So, all they have to do is make a law, such as to prrevent hate speech to override most folks right to free speech. We don’t need a new country, we need a new constitution.
And a pantload of people who actually understand what freedom means.
Link to David Clinton’s Is Canada abusing the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
https://www.theaudit.ca/p/is-canada-abusing-the-charter-of?r=gls73&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The world needs less laws.
Rules and laws, by definition, limit people. One can agree to certain limitations, though in all cases of written law there are unintended consequences, some minor others like the socialist/fascist/communist and other such ‘ists completely make some do-gooder law into convoluting nonsense.
One glaring example is charging Trump doing business, there were of course two parties to the particular business, they both agreed on the term, they both had ‘experts’ to look at it and decided it worked well for both.
The government paid bottom feeders did not like it. In fact they had no business to tell the two parties how to conduct their business. None, zero.
Then socialists/fascists decided that for ‘the common good’, sounds familiar? They stick their stinking nose into other peoples business.
There is more to come.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1854383649157771482
The above link is a start for good government .Policies for the people, a RFK JR initiative and yes we need to wade in on the regulators. The bureaucratic deep state is well entrenched in all levels of government , time to return the power to WE THE PEOPLE.
Doesn’t matter which politicians you elect, you still have the Government.