Liberals doing more to violate rights than curve crisis
Why is the federal government more focused on restricting our rights than protecting them? If you’re wondering what’s going on in the “commons” recently, you might be surprised on which side is fighting to protect Canadians. While Poilievre’s Conservatives have been focused on economic and justice system reform with such legislation as C-242 (Jail Not Bail Act) and C-269 (Heat Recovery Tax Credit) in their “government in waiting” strategy, Carney’s Liberals have been focused on the opposite.
Before voting that refugees, asylum claimants, and specific vulnerable groups should get more free healthcare including government funded vision care than Canadian citizens are allowed with House Vote 72 (Interim Federal Health Program), the federal government introduced more bills to violate our charter rights than to curve the economic crisis. For example, the government introduced Bill C-2(Strong Borders Act) which would allow Canada Post to open any letter without a warrant, which then proceeded to Bill C-8 (Act respecting cyber security) in which the government can turn off the internet of any citizen they wish, C-9 (Combatting Hate Act) criminalizing sections of the Bible, Torah, Quran and other holy texts, C-15 (Budget Implementation Act)allows any minister to exempt anyone they wish from non-criminal laws, and C-22 (Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act) which would force telecommunication providers to create a surveillance system that can be activated and accessed by the government at any time.
But government bills aren’t the only way the government breaches fundamental freedoms. With the Iran war causing public confusion after our prime minister changed his position more than five times, it was revealed that on March 1, Canadian forces were targeted by the Iranian regime during a bombing of the “Camp Canada” section of the Ali Al-salem Air Base in Kuwait. It wasn’t March 12 that Canadians were made aware when a French newspaper exposed the attempted cover-up of the bombing. Our own defence minister first said he didn’t know about the attack until the news report, then walked that back and admitted he was told immediately after the strike.
Even with all of these crises, Carney is more focused on getting a parliamentary majority than anything else. With the back-room deal floor-crossing by former NDP MP Lori Idlout, Carney is two seats shy of a majority government, allowing him to pass any legislation he wants. And with the two by-elections in GTA Liberal strongholds, Carney is set to be the first prime minister to undemocratically achieve a majority government.
So why is our prime minister more focused on destroying our fundamental rights than fixing the country his party broke?
Daniel Pinsk,
Stayner.
Editor’s note: On Wednesday Conservative Member of Parliament for Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong Marilyn Gladu crossed the floor to join the Liberals leaving the party one seat shy of a majority government.
