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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
What we have is provinces (who cannot validly enact criminal laws) creating rules under their respective Highway Traffic Acts that impose criminal penalties without the benefit of a hearing. That's not acceptable in a free society, and if the judiciary isn't willing to stop it, then the people in office who are eroding our civil liberties in this manner need to hear about it from their constituents.
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We have an alarming trend in Canadian judiciary of deferring to the police - it's almost an attitude of "well, this wouldn't affect me, so it's OK". The search provisions, etc, I don't know if it's the Quebec/French poison affecting the rest with their tradition of "the state knows best", "don't worry it won't affect you if you don't do anything wrong"...