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Ex Post Facto Laws Mean No One Is Safe
The Trudeau regime is applying its unlawful declaration of emergency retroactively. Thus, people who contributed to the truckers before the declaration are having their bank accounts frozen. This means that no one is safe from arbitrary law. The U.S. Constitution prohibits ex post facto laws. However, we aren’t in much better shape since the FBI and the Mueller Special Counsel Investigation bankrupted Trump supporters. In the U.S.’s version of a banana republic, the losers get to persecute the supporters of the guy who won it. Biden urged Trudeau to take action since the authoritarians need to stand together. Once again, the Trump supporters have proven to be right about who threatened civil liberties.
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The government can get a warrant, or the government can get stuffed.
Will there be refugees?
Technically, it’s easier to overrule the Supreme Court in Canada than in the USA, because we have the option of the Notwithstanding Clause. In the US the only option for overruling the Supreme Court is a constitutional amendment.
It’s also technically easier to depose a government in Canada. It only takes a majority vote in the House of Commons to render a judgement of non-confidence, thereby triggering a new election. A party’s caucus can also replace its leader with a simple majority vote. Impeachment in the US is much more difficult, and it doesn’t replace the party in power.
In both cases, what’s lacking is the will of the voters, not a deficiency of the system.
No.
Ignore it.
Canada out of the G7.
I don’t see how that is similar. I’m not familiar, so is this true: a law was passed which required previously convicted sex offenders to register at some point after the law was passed?
If that’s the premise, there’s nothing ex post facto about that. It’s not as though the law criminalized something after the fact. For this to be ex post facto, it would have to punish a failure to have had registered previous to the new law.
Right?
The CCP can hire all hooligans it needs. They will also have enough intelligence to blackmail all of the officials.
That’s not a fair trade! Ottawa is fifteen times the size of Washington D.C. geographically and only 1/6 the size of Washington D.C. (metro area) population-wise!
;-)
It is against the law (I presume) to donate to AQ because it is designated a terror organization or some such.
In the absence of such a designation, all this emergency act does is ex post facto restrict (money is speech, recall) political expression.
Zackly.
Canada should have been replaced by India at the G7 years ago. Canada’s now the ninth-richest country by GDP, and the eighth-richest democracy.
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled on numerous occasions that money is not speech.
Ricochet is having database issues.
And sometimes both.
There least there are no more mean tweets, right?
They’re going to need a bigger Emergency Act:
The claim that registration was ex post facto was based on it being added punishment for a crime that had already been convicted, sentenced, and perhaps fully served.
We can only dream:
“Imagine a Sikh convoy, Mohawk convoy, and a Ghurka convoy converging on Ottawa”.
And I think generally wrong.
I dunno . . . let me de-bank you and listen to you squeal.
“Experts…have said…”
Judge: “Bail is set at $100,000”
Defendant: “But my bank accounts and credit card are frozen.”
Judge: “Defendant refuses bail.”
Today, a country with a long, storied history of fighting against the odds and harsh elements faces a choice between a leader with nazi links and a leader sired by Communists. If you depose one you get the other.
Canada, choose wisely.
Which states allow civil asset forfeiture? Too many! FYI, using federal law is a workaround to state controls.
Judge: “You have a right to legal counsel.”
Defendant: “My bank accounts are frozen.”
Judge: “You have a right to a legal aid lawyer.”
Defendant: “But all their bank accounts are frozen too.”
Judge: “Defendant refuses legal counsel.”
I found a reference that said: ‘A national emergency is defined as “an urgent and critical situation of a temporary nature that … cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada.” ‘
Is there really no law relating to double parking in Ottawa? I think Trudeau considers “dealt with” as “satisfyingly punished” not “remedied”.
Yep, it is a great injustice.
What is going on in Canada is even worse.
Where did you read that Candace Bergen has Nazi links?!
That is the core argument of the lawsuits against Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act that are currently working their way through the courts.