The Proletariat Congress

In a move to further degrade their popularity, the Liberals have gone to bed with the Conservatives and proposed a piece of legislation that would violate the fundamental clauses of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This legislation, Bill C-416 would allow for warrant-free wire-tapping. This bill is a reincarnation of Bill C-74 that died during the last session because it didn’t make it to a first reading.

The purpose of this Act is to ensure that telecommunications service providers have the capability to enable national security and law enforcement agencies to exercise their authority to intercept communications, and to require service providers to provide subscriber and other information, without unreasonably impairing the privacy of individuals, the provision of telecommunications services to Canadians or the competitiveness of the Canadian telecommunications industry.

That is just the basic description. A rather broad sweeping pre-amble. It is written in political jargon so we, the voting public can’t see through the guise that the deceptive federal politicians have put up in a bid to remain ‘relevant’. They are still cozying up to the lame-duck American Administration whose core undoing was the unconstitutional wire-tapping that was given as an executive order and found by the Supreme Court to be in violation of the fundamental rights of the American public.

The Canadian government didn’t learn from this folly and has decided to make a benign polyamorous relationship with a nation who continues to preach democracy with one voice but in the next seeks to make a resonating assault on fundamental rights.

Under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, clause eight states:

Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.

If Bill C-416 was passed, it would violation clause eight because any search and seizure requires either line of sight or a warrant, or for you to fail a customs screening or you’ve been pulled over and you’ve given the officer permission to check your vehicle… But to wire-tap, it would be a violation unless a warrant was acquired.

The Bush Administration and Alberto ‘Memo, what memo’ Gonzales authorised such actions, which has proven to back fire on them. What makes the Canadian government think it can do the same thing?

Perhaps the fact that they have no regard for the Canadian public and play us for naïve children who need to be led by the hand into a future where we live in an Orwellian-style Nanny State where the government is deluded into thinking it knows what’s best.

Fortunately for the public, the Charter provides a nice little clause that allows for us to seek legal recourse against those who are mentally unable to comprehend that the War on Terror is nothing more than hot air that is designed as a money sink hole for tax-payer dollars and will achieve nothing and will be a greater pork hog than the Sponsorship Programme. Only instead of lining the pockets of French Liberals, we’d be sinking money into “security”measures that leave us no more secure than we were before 9/11. All we get now are longer lines, fees and all the headaches and hassles you can handle!

Anyone whose rights or freedoms, as guaranteed by this Charter, have been infringed or denied may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction to obtain such remedy as the court considers appropriate and just in the circumstances.

And that lovely clause? That’s clause 24(1) from the Charter. It has been used in the fight to legalise homosexual marriages and for other legal rights that were otherwise denied because of enshrined chauvinistic; Victorian practices sanctioned by the government.

Until the Canadian public wakes up, we’re going to be caught in a cycle that seeks Conservative and Liberal government, neither of which truly reflect the social and equality needs of the Canadian public. They are only fringe political groups who specialise in expensive mudslinging and bullying.

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