This is utterly insane. In Canada, a psychiatrist can just LOOK at you in a public place, sitting on a bench, or eating a sandwich, or walking down the sidewalk, and they can "certify" you as being insane, and the police will arrest you and take you to a psychiatric evaluation.
No rights. No law. No due process. No defense.
The psych doctors are the ones who are insane. And government authoritarians, of course.
A biophysics grad was just detained under BC's Mental Health Act.
All based on a psychiatrist's opinion after observing him in a cafe.
He looked at him & said “I’m certifying you”
THAT’S ALL IT TOOK.
No warrant.
No on scene evaluation.
No psych evaluation.
No paperwork shown.
No chance to comply voluntarily.
Just because a psychiatrist saw him in a cafe.
Meanwhile, the same city has a documented drug addicts, where one person, has been
apprehended 79 times and is still on the street.
The government can grab a credentialed researcher off the road in 20 minutes but it can't keep a chronic offender out of the same intersection for more than a week?
What a joke.