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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
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"...
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Agreed--and it goes all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.
The McLachlin court has eroded our charter rights in a way that has virtually reversed the significant gains in those areas carved out by the Dickson and Lamer courts.
Examples abound: the "Interrogation Trilogy" (
Sinclair, Singh, Oickle),
R v Grant, the list goes on. It's like a bad dream.