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Apr 17
Not a bad way to celebrate the 44th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms :
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The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms has sent a legal letter to the BC Government calling for the cancellation of planned public closures at Joffre Lakes.
It states that reserving access to the park exclusively for particular groups based on race or ethnic origin violates sections 6 & 15(1) of the Charter (mobility & equality rights).
As someone who has been fighting the BC govt on this issue for years, I applaud @JCCFCanada.
BC’s beautiful provincial parks belong to ALL British Columbians.
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It is dizzying to see @EvanLSolomon and Liberal MPs tweet about the importance of privacy even as they prepare to vote to shut down lawful access hearings and stop debating (or making public) amendments to safeguard privacy.
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🚨The government is moving to shut down lawful access hearings and consideration of amendments on mandatory metadata retention, security backdoors, and weakened encryption today. All amendments to Bill C-22 would be kept secret and voted on without debate.
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yesterday, the federal government moved to shut down debate on C-22. this means it will clear the House within days and the only real recourse for further amendments will be the Senate.
to explain the motion like you're 5.... imagine you're in elementary school and the class is supposed to spend a week discussing the rules for a new game, with everyone allowed to suggest changes and argue about them
this motion is essentially the equivalent of the teacher standing up and saying: "we're done talking. we're finishing this today, my way, and I'm taking away your ways to slow it down."
it's called a programming motion and is the most aggressive tool a government has to force a bill through.
i honestly can't believe this is happening in Canada, especially given the clear repercussions for Canada's innovation sector.
sad day for democracy.
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Jun 15
Our federal government seems determined to create a powerful bureaucracy to police our speech and privacy:
the Digital Safety Commission.
Jun 15
Remember the safeguard the government included last week in Bill C-34 for age verification that required consultation with the privacy commissioner? Five days later, it now plans to repeal the provision as part of creating a super-regulator in Bill C-36.
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BREAKING NEWS
The Ontario Superior Court has ruled that the Parliamentary Protective Service violated the freedom of expression rights of Campaign Life Coalition and one of its members by prohibiting signs expressing opposition to abortion at a 2023 Parliament Hill event.
The Court held the censorship was not justified under section 1 of the Charter and rejected reliance on broad, subjective standards to restrict political expression.
More to follow.
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Jun 11
Sitting in on a technical briefing for Bill C-34, where officials just said looking into different methods for age assurance. Mentioned the prospect of leveraging government ID systems (digital IDs?), third parties, or companies themselves. Clear they really don’t know right now.
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It won't. It'll ensure that their every activity online is surveilled by the government, and made available to bad actors.
If you need this for your kids, you are a bad parent, both because you are failing to parent them, and because you are making them less free.
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Bill C-34 is not just about child safety. It's about who decides how children navigate the internet: parents or the state. Social media bans displace parental authority. But the less Ottawa relies on parents, the more it must rely on age verification, age estimation, and surveillance to enforce the ban. The more it relies on these tools, the greater the privacy cost to all Canadians.
Will Ottawa consider the possibility that parental rights and responsibilities are a practical alternative to surveillance?
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Free societies do not write governments blank cheques of power. Elected representatives should vote on specific powers. They should not delegate major legislative and policy decisions to future regulators. Yet, as privacy expert and law professor @mgeist states, "Bill C-34 punts 50 key decisions to cabinet and a Digital Safety Commission that does not yet exist."
Which chatbot services and social media platforms will be affected? What counts as "significant psychological or physical harm"? What are adequate age verification and estimation requirements? Canadians do not have answers. Parliament does not know. And yet Ottawa is asking your Members of Parliament to support the legislation.
If Parliament cannot know the scope of the powers it is creating, they cannot assess the impact that Bill C-34 will have on Canadians’ civil liberties. That is reason enough to defeat the Bill.
Jun 11
The government’s digital safety bill regulates social media services, AI chatbots, and potentially any other online service or application. Who is targeted? What criteria for regulation? Bill C-34 doesn't say. It leaves all of those decisions to cabinet.
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Jun 5
"I am a man. See me as a human being—not a birth defect, not a syndrome. I don’t need to be eradicated."
Frank Stephens pleads for the humanization of people with Down syndrome, studies suggest 67-90% are aborted in the United States due to faulty prenatal screenings.
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Jun 2
Criminalizing more speech in Canada?
Chief @Aaronpete_ says no.
But 7-1 appointed senators say yes.
Canada's institutions are failing to respect fundamental freedoms--they need serious reform.
Jun 2
I'm prepared to go to jail over this.
My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.
My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.
I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.
I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.
I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.
Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.
No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.
The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.
The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.
If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.
If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.
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May 28
This is good to see: Canadians understand that human rights tribunals do a terrible job of respecting the human right to freedom of expression.
So if the federal government is not allowing the CHRC and CHRT to police speech, why do BC, AB, SK MB and QC all explicitly allow their human rights bureaucracies to police their citizen's speech? See jccf.ca/reports-16/
@Dave_Eby @ABDanielleSmith @PremierScottMoe @WabKinew @CFrechette, time to respect Canadians' freedom of expression and change your human rights legislation!
@JCCFCanada @CJLC_JCCF
May 28
#REPORT: The Carney Liberals say they are ABANDONING Trudeau-era efforts to reintroduce Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Code.
The section, which was repealed by Stephen Harper, allowed Canadians to submit human rights complaints over "hateful" online content.
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Legal case challenging municipality’s recording ban heard in court, judge reserves decision.
ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/article/…
@JCCFCanada @CanConLaw
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May 1
Adam Zivo: Trans activist Jessica Yaniv crusades against free speech nationalpost.com/opinion/ada…
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Apr 30
For lawyers who might be so inclined, you can vote here: canadianlawyermag.com/news/g…
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Apr 30
The BC Supreme Court has just recognized the independence of the Bar as a constitutional principle.
I am glad to see that lawyer independence is the central focus, as shown by the following statements from the decision:
[106] It is axiomatic that in carrying out their advisory and advocacy roles in each of these areas, lawyers must be, and must be seen to be, independent from outside influences, including, in particular, the influence of the state.
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[108] Thus, legislation or other measures said to undermine the independence of the Bar must be examined through the lens of the impact on lawyers’ ability to provide such impartial advice and zealous advocacy.
Law Society of British Columbia v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 2026 BCSC 779
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Apr 29
You don’t have to agree with Widdowson. Lots of people don’t. But arresting her on some trespassing charge for having a peaceful meeting is terrible behaviour for an institution. cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/f…
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Apr 28
Enforcing a social media ban would mean mandating age verification for everyone, requiring tens of millions of Canadians to submit government ID to third-party providers. Those backing a ban don't discuss the privacy risks or data showing bans don't work.
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Apr 25
BREAKING Frances Widdowson Arrest:
Free speech advocate, Dr. Frances Widdowson, known for challenging the Aboriginal industry, was just arrested at Lethbridge University.
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Apr 22
Canadians should know whether their elected Members of Parliament can be prevented from carrying out their constitutional responsibilities for weeks or months at a time for a Prime Minister's petty and purely partisan purposes or not.
An FCA answer to this question will give us insight to the strength of Canada's representative democracy.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS
The Federal Court of Appeal has deemed the prorogation challenge moot, but will still allow the case to proceed on its merits.
No date has yet been set for the next hearing.
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