Blacklock’s- Bill OKs Police To Open Mail
Police would gain new powers to intercept mail in transit under a bill introduced yesterday by Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree. The bill repeals privacy protections at the post office that date from Confederation.
Currently police must track suspicious letters and packages to delivery, a requirement that’s seen RCMP pose as mail carriers and courier drivers in sting operations, according to evidence filed in the Ontario Court of Appeal.
Will there be a dissenting voice in The House ?
And on the Ontario front, here’s blubber douggie’s latest attack on freedoms:
Last week, the Ford PCs passed Bill 9, the so-called “Municipal Accountability Act,” on Second Reading. It is now at Standing Committee.
This legislation mirrors a Liberal bill from 2021 and poses a significant threat to local democracy and free speech.
Here is a rundown of Bill 9:
1. Centralized Control Over Local Councils
Bill 9 takes away municipalities’ ability to set their own codes of conduct, handing that power to the provincial government. Instead of locally elected councils deciding on the rules, Queen’s Park would dictate them, undermining local decision-making and shifting control to bureaucrats in Toronto.
2. Expanded Powers for the Provincial Integrity Commissioner
This bill grants the provincial Integrity Commissioner — an unelected official — sweeping powers to investigate and punish local councillors based on vague “breaches” of conduct. They could even recommend the removal of councillors for “severe misconduct,” opening the door to partisan abuse and political censorship.
3. A Dangerous New Mechanism for Removing Elected Officials
The bill allows municipal integrity commissioners to recommend removing elected officials based on undefined claims of “serious violations” or behaviour that “causes harm to someone’s well-being.” This vagueness sets a dangerous precedent that could overrule the will of voters and give unelected government officials more power than the elected.
Most likely not, but it would be wonderful if CPC for once could defend classical liberal values and say no to this monstrosity.
Oh, please, the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario isn’t in the slightest bit conservative let alone interested in defending classical liberal values. There is no appreciable difference between Blubber Dougie and his LPO predecessors.
You got that right. And until they start speaking out loudly and unrelentingly against stuff like this, I’ll have no reason to believe that our federal Conservatives are any different when it comes to our freedoms.
What? Wow wouldn’t want a councilor pointing out what a dirty rotten b—— Ford is.
What did he and Freeland do anyways?
I never voted for him by the way.
Ontario should be the canary in the coal mine, to the rest of Canada.
Luckily there won’t be any mail to open as Canada Post will be on strike! (Forever?)
Don’t worry, they’ll only open Conservatives mail.
They’ll also seize any cheques.
Do terrorists typically mail their plans to individual cells within their cause?
I read there’s a currency withdrawal limit at banks included in this bill too …
The NDP’s interim leader Don Davies said this AM they’ll be voting against the throne speech, leaving only the BQ to enter support it or defeat it. It seems to me that a throne speech is a vote of confidence.
46 seconds, and straight to the point:
https://x.com/MarcNixon24/status/1930331173869568319
Nope. A throne speech isn’t a matter of confidence and the Libs lost the vote but soldier on.
I looked.. the various news medias say it’ll be a vote of confidence, no mention in the House of Common’s rules is set out unless the vote is explicitly said to be a vote of confidence, and the motion isn’t set in stone but more by convention, which I’d expect the current crop of #Libranos to simply ignore.
However, Gov’t House Leader Steven MacKinnon has said the throne speech is a confidence vote.
No word yet on if the BQ or Conservatives will support the gov’t in this vote. I don’t see how the opposition parties can vote to amend the throne speech, win that one, then vote for it in the unamended form.
But.. Canadian politics and “do as you say you’ll do” have little meaning for me here since 2019
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-not-supporting-throne-speech-1.7552190
and…
https://www.rebelnews.com/ndp_to_vote_against_throne_speech_raising_likelihood_of_another_election
Addressing Francisco’s post above and link to Holly Doan’s site, I’d rather the parliament buildings be burnt down than authorise the police or gov’t gangsters to be opening up everyone’s mail. The bill includes provision to have monitoring software built into personal communication devices including computers or mobile phones … without judicial warrants or further oversight.
It’s all gov’t overreach now, all the time.
Minister Gary Anandasangaree
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This guy is a problem. You can read his history and come to that conclusion rather easily. He’s a “Human Rights” Attorney. He’ll always be a “Human Rights” Attorney. Every act, comment, and application that this guy touches is based on being a “Human Rights” Attorney.
Short version: He knows better than you, and will steal your rights in the name of “Human Rights.”
“This guy wants the power to open your mail
and install tracking software your phone remotely and COVERTLY
whats your message to him?”
https://x.com/Tablesalt13/status/1930382533033934907
His office contact and constituency offices are here:
https://openparliament.ca/politicians/gary-anandasangaree/contact/
Anyone else remember ‘liberals’ of the 70’s and 80’s? Never seen anything switch so fast in the history of man.
If it’s happened before, please enlighten.
According to the Canadian security expert Tom Quiggan, the Minister introducing this Bill was formerly the lawyer for the Tamil Tigers in Canada!
I hate to say it but this legislation is spot on. When you import millions of pagans from Sri Lanka, India, Sikhland, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Africa, civil liberties will have to take a hit.
I am quite familiar with some of the policing issues created by our new criminal class. It’s real!
And, considering that Canada imposed martial law to suppress the truckers convoy, this latest civil rights imposition is just the beginning of the middle of the end of Canada.
The Liberal/NDP caused this. Tick tock.
The irony of a Sri Lankan born Canadian minister of the crown is fitting.
The Stassi have got nothing on the RCMP!
After looking at the act, they are removing “other than a letter” from:
41 (1) The Corporation may open any mail, other than a letter, if it has reasonable grounds to suspect that
(a) the conditions prescribed by regulations made under paragraph 19(1)(c) have not been complied with;
(b) the manner prescribed by regulations made under paragraph 19(1)(e) has not been adhered to; or
(c) the mail is non-mailable matter.
– 19(1)(c) prescribing the conditions under which mailable matter may be transmitted by post;
– 19(1)(e) providing for the reduction of rates of postage on mailable matter prepared in the manner prescribed by the regulations;
Weird, but they already had the opportunity to do it for non-letter mail.
Although it’s objectionable, there are many things in the same legislation that are probably much worse. For example, giving cops carte blanche to operate the infamous RCMP “Mr. Big” entrapment schemes, they are not allowing “anonymous accounts” any more, and a completely new act which should be in separate bill called “Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act” which also invades the privacy of Canadians…