Having worked together with lawyers for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association before on Constitutional / Charter issues in the Supreme Court of Canada, this blunt, simple statement caught my attention today (particularly the parts I have bolded):
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TORONTO — Harini Sivalingam, Director of the Equality Program of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), made the following statement:
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is disheartened that anti-trans legislation has swiftly passed through the Alberta legislature without adequate debate. Alarmingly the advice of experts and perspectives of affected communities were ignored in this process.
This is a dark time for freedom in Alberta. The passage of these intrusive laws will severely erode the liberty of individuals and families to make deeply personal decisions about their lives.
We don’t need more government overreach into the private lives of its residents.
CCLA is committed to support the efforts by 2SLGBTQIA+ communities to challenge these unconstitutional laws.
What a remarkable unforced error / own goal to take overt steps to make your province known as the main place where the CCLA sees the need to step in to protect individuals from their own government.
You should not need to even be a supporter of trans people to see it.
In fact, self-proclaimed 'freedom' activists and dare I say trucker convoy supporters should be the ones most against these types of legislative measures.
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It's actually very clever. By making it so progressives and queers don't want to live in Alberta, they both secure their future election fortunes and lower housing costs!
An Alberta government bill proposing changes to freedom of information rules has passed third and final reading in the legislature despite the province's information and privacy watchdog warning they will "significantly degrade" transparency.
The bill, now awaiting royal assent, creates a number of new exemptions for what documents can be provided to members of the public upon request.
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Those new exemptions include any document created by or for the premier, government ministers or the provincial Treasury Board, including correspondence like emails.
Additional exemptions include documents containing background and factual information used in behind-the-scenes policy and legislation development, and communication between political staff and government ministers.
It's worth it, for the ever dangling carrot of a tax cut. Maybe next year!
You know that tax cut is coming right before the next election though. They're going to see if they can trot it out again and win two elections with the same policy.
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Having worked together with lawyers for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association before on Constitutional / Charter issues in the Supreme Court of Canada, this blunt, simple statement caught my attention today (particularly the parts I have bolded):
What a remarkable unforced error / own goal to take overt steps to make your province known as the main place where the CCLA sees the need to step in to protect individuals from their own government.
You should not need to even be a supporter of trans people to see it.
In fact, self-proclaimed 'freedom' activists and dare I say trucker convoy supporters should be the ones most against these types of legislative measures.
What should we expect to see in terms of legal action against this legislation?
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In fact, self-proclaimed 'freedom' activists and dare I say trucker convoy supporters should be the ones most against these types of legislative measures.
Those types are the same sort who are the loudest and proudest when cheering legislation like this.
It's about their freedom to be an outright pain in the ass and an obstacle to progress in society, not everyone else's freedom to live freely.
