Category: Basic Dictatorship

Let Them Smoke Fentanyl

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CTV;

The federal health minister says she is looking into legislation that would permanently ban the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after 2008.

Speaking on Parliament Hill Tuesday, Majorie Michel was asked if Canada would consider legislation similar to the United Kingdom’s recently proposed bill that aims to reduce the use of cigarettes and vapes for young people.

“I am looking into it right now,” she told reporters. “We saw what the U.K. did, but I am looking into it with all partners for now.”


“Cha-ching”

Nobody Voted For This

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Literally, nobody voted for this.

They’re shopping for MPs like they’re filling a baseball team roster.

He, Too, Admires Their Basic Dictatorship

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Colby Cosh;

The Supreme Court is an apex appellate court; its function is to give the final word solely on points of law, and certainly not to conduct a de novo trial, repeating the evidence-gathering work of the court of first instance. So what exactly is the point of the week-long jamboree and its parade of interveners? Are there novel and pertinent social or legal facts to be studied?

It is almost, as Sarkonak observes, as though the court were taking the work of a parliamentary committee onto itself — as if it were revving up to legislate in an area with profound social and political implications, in precisely the way parliamentary deputies would be traditionally expected to.

The Government of Canada is encouraging the Supreme Court to, on its own motion, capture new and previously unimagined powers for itself. It proposes that the court should be able to block some uses of the notwithstanding clause because, if renewed by successive governments often enough, they might create “irreparable impairments” to the enumerated rights and freedoms suspended. (Look into your crystal balls!) The government also invites the court to allow idle “declarations of invalidity” on statutes that use the clause: it proposes, in fact, that the court should be permitted to do this for explicitly electoral purposes, because “voters and their representatives are not always necessarily in a position to determine for themselves whether a law respects Charter rights and freedoms.”

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Related news from the Governor’s office: Carney is giving the Anti-Hate Network a say over what speech to restrict

He, Too, Admires Their Basic Dictatorship

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A legal challenge to Quebec’s secularism law, known as Bill 21, will be heard at the Supreme Court of Canada beginning Monday, and legal experts say whatever the eventual ruling, it will have a profound effect on constitutional law in Canada.

The highly anticipated high court challenge to Bill 21 has been years in the making, but legal debate is likely to focus primarily on Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the provision known as the “notwithstanding clause,” which shields legislation from most court challenges over violations of fundamental rights.

François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec government pre-emptively invoked the provision into the law passed in June 2019.

The Quebec law, known as Act respecting the laicity of the state, sets out the principles of secularism in the province. Among its most controversial measures is the prohibition of civil servants who are considered in positions of power — such as police officers, teachers and judges — from wearing religious symbols at work.

“What lies at the heart of the challenge before the Supreme Court is far less the act on state secularism than the criteria for suspending the application of human rights and freedoms,” said Louis-Philippe Lampron, a professor at the Université Laval’s School of Law.

“That’s why the upcoming Supreme Court decision will be a true earthquake in constitutional law, no matter which way the Supreme Court rules.”

Related: Carney takes Emergencies Act fight to Supreme Court

Cold Canuck Hands

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Tristan Hopper, National Post (paywalled);

The Liberals’ plan to “buy back” thousands of once-legal firearms has experienced so many cost overruns that it has so far more than $24,000 for every gun collected.

This means that for just three firearms turned over as part of the program, the federal government could have instead paid the starting salary of a full-time RCMP officer ($71,191).

For every two guns, the government could have purchased a new fully-equipped patrol car.[…]

As of the latest count from Public Safety Canada, “more than 32,000” firearms have been collected in the first six weeks of the program. But this is against the $779.8 million in costs that the program has incurred to date.

This works out to roughly $24,370 per firearm, most of which is sunk administrative costs that the original owner will never see.

Also…

We Are All Treaty People

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Bruce Pardy, Fraser Institute;

The Canadian government has surrendered Vancouver. On Feb. 20, the federal government announced three agreements with the Musqueam Indian Band. One of those agreements recognizes Musqueam Aboriginal title within their traditional territory. That territory is located around the mouth of the Fraser River, including what is now Vancouver and neighbouring municipalities. The agreements were negotiated secretly without public input.

If the federal government wanted to calm the waters over the status of private property rights in British Columbia, this was not the way to do it. Which means that’s not what they wanted to do. They have chosen to pour oil on the fire. The Musqueam agreements are the latest edicts to pose existential risks to property interests in B.C. Let’s recap.

More: Eby now saying he sat front row at Musqueam agreement’s signing

Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa

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He uses up a lot of words to say, “Yes, just like China.”

Let Them Eat Taser

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Yesterday afternoon around 430pm Alberta time, Tony Olienick walked out of Drumheller Institution, and re-united with the only family he has, his mother Tessie, after suffering nearly four years of incarceration as a political prisoner in the mass gulag camp once known as Canada.

The previous evening he was granted ‘bail on appeal’, something he was denied once already last year, and while he has to live with a number of strictly enforced conditions, somewhat similar to those imposed on Chris Barber and his ‘house arrest’, Tony is almost a free man. His conditions will be fully discharged in June of 2026, when he would have been statutorily released at the end of his sentence. ‘Sentence’ doing a lot of work here for a guy whose only crime was being a loudmouth at a protest…

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