FREEDOM ISSUES IN THE OKANAGAN: MEETINGS WITH D. STEPHEN MALTHOUSE & SEAN TAYLOR AND IMPORTANT PROVINCIAL ELECTION MEETINGS —PENTICTON, SALMON ARM, ENDERBY, GRAND FORKS, OSOYOOS, ENDERBY, SUMMERLAND, SORRENTO

MPORTANT ELECTION READINESS EVENTS

SEPTEMBER 27 THROUGH OCTOBER 3

ASK QUESTIONS.GET ANSWERS.TAKE ACTION

1.      ** Five events featuring Dr. Stephen Malthouse **

a. Review of legislation

b.Introduction to Political Scorecards

c. Learn what candidates & MLAs are thinking

d. Get into action!

2.     And More …

Meet & Greets and All Candidates Meetings.

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Grand Forks **

Meet & Greet

Sean Taylor & Dr. Stephen Malthouse

Friday, September 27 – 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Royal Canadian Legion

7353 6 Street

Grand Forks

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Osoyoos **

Community Gathering

Featuring Dr. Stephen Malthouse
Saturday, September 28 – 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Osoyoos Christian Centre

42 Finch Crescent

Osoyoos

(All Candidates Invited)

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Summerland

Roger Harrington Meet & Greet

Saturday, September 28 – 1 to 3 pm

The Harold Simpson Memorial Youth Centre

9111 Peach Orchard Road

Summerland

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Armstrong Potluck **

Monday, September 30th – 6 pm

Roy Farms on Reservoir Road 

1584 Reservoir Road 

Spallumcheen (Armstrong) BC 

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Sorrento – Town Hall **

Tuesday, October 1st

1148 Passchendaele Road Sorrento 

Doors open at 6:30

7pm start 

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Enderby – Town Hall **

Wednesday, October 2nd

Enderby Seniors Centre 

1101 George Street

 Enderby 

Doors open at 6:30pm

7pm start

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Salmon Arm – TownHall **

Thursday, October 3rd

Salmon Arm Senior Citizen Association

170 5th Ave SE

Salmon Arm 

Doors open at 6:30 

7pm start 

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Penticton

All Candidates Meeting hosted by

Penticton Chamber of Commerce

Thursday, October 3 – 5:30 to 8 PM

Okanagan College – Community Hall

583 Duncan Ave West

Penticton

CAFE’S 7TH RALLY FOR POLITICAL PRISONER LES BORY


CAFE’S 7TH RALLY FOR POLITICAL PRISONER LES BORY

We’re now into Autumn. It’s political prisoner Les Bory’s second Autumn in prison. The rotten judicial system has repeatedly denied this non-violent man, with no criminal record, bail. Meanwhile, even people accused of murder are out  on bail. Violent criminals get bail. People who DO bad things get bail. People who SAY bad things stay in jail, Les Bory is a dissident pure and simple. His Internet TV show featured his dissent. His persecution is entirely political.

 As of September 25, Les Bory has spent 582 days in remand. He has been charged with three counts of uttering threats against privileged groups via a podcast, February 11, 2023. Several attempts to get bail for Leslie for a non-violent alleged crime have been denied. Leslie has no criminal record. The papers are filled with stories of violent criminals let back on the streets despite previous convictions for violence. His lawyer indicates that an “expedited” (that used to mean speeded up) trial for Leslie may not occur until January  6, 2025! He will have spent two years and suffered two years loss of freedom and income without a conviction.

However, this is political! One of the groups he allegedly threatened or made nasty comments about is Canada’s most privileged group and I don’t mean Icelanders.
We owe it to this brave freedom fighter to make some noise on his behalf.


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Wasting Taxpayers’ Money & Throttling Free Speech: The Trudeau Tyrants Are Fighting “Hate”; That Is, Criticism of Privileged Minorities

Wasting Taxpayers’ Money & Throttling Free Speech: The Trudeau Tyrants Are Fighting “Hate”; That Is, Criticism of Privileged Minorities

Note the names of the tyrants who rule over us and wish to make privileged minorities “safe” by eradicating our freedom to speak and criticize.

You might was caused this extra surge in Liberal reaction. It was this:

https://petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2024/09/22/opp-investigate-after-four-pride-sidewalks-vandalized-in-petrolia/ “The Petrolia woman stood crying at the PRIDE sidewalk at LCCVI, frustrated, angry and sad to see that overnight someone had used what appeared to be a roller and some white paint to cover the sidewalk. At the north end, vandals used a stencil and black paint to emblazon “Fear God” in capital letters. There was also a cross drawn with spray paint. It was one of four PRIDE sidewalks damaged overnight. A small crossing leading to the front doors of Queen Elizabeth II Public School was painted white and, at Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital near the eye clinic, white covered a sidewalk no more than 20 feet long. A black cross was also painted there.” Now millions more of our tax dollars will be spent to make the woke Liberals look sufficiently upset. LD


The Government of Canada launches Canada’s Action Plan on Combatting Hate News Release, Ottawa – September 23, 2024

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/news/2024/09/the-government-of-canada-launches-canadas-action-plan-on-combatting-hate.html

Canada, like elsewhere around the world, has seen a rise in hate both on the streets and online in recent years. The federal government is committed to doing whatever it takes to protect everyone living in Canada as well as the resilient and diverse communities across the country to ensure that all can thrive while being their authentic self.

The rise in hate incidents has disproportionately affected Indigenous Peoples; Black, racialized, religious minorities, and 2SLGBTQI+ communities; women; and persons with disabilities. Hate not only harms those directly targeted but also impacts the broader Canadian society, undermining social cohesion and posing a threat to national security.

That’s why today, the Honourable Kamal Khera, Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities, unveiled Canada’s Action Plan on Combatting Hate. The Action Plan represents Canada’s first-ever comprehensive cross-government effort to combat hate. It brings together 20 key federal initiatives grounded on three pillars:

  • Empower communities to identify and prevent hate;
  • Support victims and survivors, and protect communities; and
  • Build community trust, partnerships and institutional readiness.

The Action Plan invests $273.6 million over six years, and $29.3 million ongoing, to tackle hatred from multiple angles. It includes increasing support to victims and survivors, helping communities prevent, address and protect people from hate; enhancing research and data collection; providing greater resources for law enforcement; and raising public awareness.

Everyone has a right to be safe and treated with dignity. We will collaborate with provincial, territorial and international governments, as well as First Nations, Inuit and Métis partners, and cities and communities across Canada to make this happen. Canada’s Action Plan on Combatting Hate will help us continue building a safer and more inclusive Canada where everyone can succeed, regardless of who they are, who they love or what they believe in.

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“Everyone has the right to feel safe, regardless of who they are, what they look like or what they believe in. We have all been alarmed to witness the tragic consequences of hate, both at home and abroad. Hate has no place in Canada – whether in person or online, in our schools, or in our places of worship. Our government is committed to keeping communities across the country safe. Because when someone becomes a victim of hate, it affects all of us. Canada’s first-ever Action Plan on Combatting Hate represents an unprecedented cross-government effort to combat hate while providing more support to victims of hate and at-risk communities. As we face difficult and challenging times, we must stand up for who are as a country – a country where diversity is our strength and where everyone can be who they are and achieve their dreams without fear.”

—The Honourable Kamal Khera, Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities

“Hate, in all its forms, has no place in Canada – everyone has a right to feel and be safe in their homes and in their communities. We all have a role to play in fighting discrimination and fostering a fairer, safer and more inclusive Canada. The Changing Narratives Fund, as part of Canada’s Action Plan on Combatting Hate, will break down systemic barriers and empower diverse voices in the arts, culture and media. The fund ensures their experiences and perspectives are better represented, and advances anti-racism, equity, and diversity and inclusion within the cultural and media sectors.”

—The Honourable Pascale St‑Onge, Minister of Canadian Heritage

“In the face of an increase in hate crimes, our government is stepping up to ensure at-risk communities can access financial support to protect their institutions. The new Canada Community Security Program is designed to be simpler, more flexible and more generous, in direct response to what we’ve heard from community organizations across the country.”

—The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs

“No one should live in fear of being who they are, but we know that discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity and expression continues to be a reality in Canada. This is wrong and must be eliminated. Canada’s Action Plan on Combatting Hate complements actions we have taken to protect and support Canadians since 2015, including the Federal 2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan, all of which were developed by listening to the voices and lived experiences of individuals and communities across Canada. As always, we continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with all communities experiencing hate and we will not hesitate to use all federal tools to protect and support them.”

—The Honourable Marci Ien, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth

“We all expect to be safe in our homes, in our neighbourhoods and in our communities. This is why we introduced Bill C-63, a key component of Canada’s Action Plan on Combatting Hate. We know that online harms can have real world impacts with tragic and sometimes fatal consequences. This legislation is about keeping everyone safer in an online world that can feel more dangerous and unfortunately more toxic each and every day so that women, racialized persons, 2SLGBTQI+ people, and people of diverse faiths and backgrounds can go to their places of worship, community centres, schools or work without fearing that online threats might turn into real world danger.”

—The Honourable Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

“Canada is as innovative as it is diverse, and it is far more successful when everyone is given a fair chance to develop their full potential, free from hate and discrimination. With Canada’s Action Plan on Combatting Hate, we are standing up to confront hate and protect Canadians, and Statistics Canada will be key in researching and gathering the data needed to build a safer and more resilient society.”

—The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry

“Canada is a country rich in diversity, where every person deserves to feel safe and be respected. This is why today we’re launching Canada’s first-ever Action Plan on Combatting Hate, a commitment of $273 million to help build a safe Canada for everyone.”

—Sameer Zuberi, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities

Quick facts

  • Budget 2022 provided $85 million over four years, starting in 2022–23, to the Department of Canadian Heritage to launch and implement the new Anti-Racism Strategy and a national action plan on combatting hate. Budget 2024 provides an additional $273.6 million over six years, starting in 2024–25, and $29.3 million ongoing to support Canada’s Action Plan on Combatting Hate. The Action Plan brings together key initiatives led by federal departments and organizations, including Canadian Heritage, Public Safety Canada, Justice Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Women and Gender Equality Canada, Statistics Canada and the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.
  • According to the July 2024 Statistics Canada data release, the number of police-reported hate crimes increased from 3,612 incidents in 2022 to 4,777 in 2023 (+32%), even though some victims might not report a hate crime they experienced. This followed an 8-percent increase in 2022 and a 72-percent increase from 2019 to 2021. Overall, the number of police-reported hate crimes (+145%) has more than doubled since 2019.
  • Canada’s Action Plan on Combatting Hate is complemented by the work of the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism and the Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia.
  • Public Safety Canada’s enhanced Canada Community Security Program (CCSP) (previously the Security Infrastructure Program) is also part of Canada’s Action Plan on Combatting Hate. The CCSP is making it easier and more efficient for organizations and communities at risk of hate-motivated crime to access security support when they need it.
  • The Action Plan aligns with ongoing efforts to further mitigate the risk of exposure to harmful content online through Bill C-63, which proposes to create a new Online Harms Act to create stronger protections for the most vulnerable groups online. The Government of Canada has tabled Bill C-63, An Act to enact the Online Harms Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Human Rights Act and An Act respecting the mandatory reporting of Internet child pornography by persons who provide an Internet service and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts, in the House of Commons.
  • Canada is signatory to the Christchurch Call to Eliminate Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online, which is a global pledge by 56 governments, including Canada, as well as online service providers and civil society organizations to coordinate and collaborate on efforts to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online. The Government of Canada reiterates its engagement to advance the Christchurch Call to Action in Canada’s Action Plan on Combatting Hate.
  • Canada’s Action Plan on Combatting Hate complements Changing Systems, Transforming Lives: Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy 2024–2028. Both initiatives take a comprehensive and intersectional approach to confronting hate, racism and discrimination.

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CAFE SUPPORTS POLITICAL PRISONER CLAYTON MCALLISTER

DORCHESTER, ONTARIO, September 21, 2024. A number of CAFE supporters and CAFE Director Paul Fromm attended a fundraiser for political prisoner Clayton McAllister at a barn here tonight. CAFE contributed $200 to Mr. McAllister’s defence fund.


Clayton was the first trucker arrested at the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa in February, 2022, when Trudeau brought in the police state Emergencies Act to deal with a parking problem! His non-violent resistance where he lay down in front of the Police Officers was an iconic photo seen internationally. He was arrested and faces charges of mischief, violating a Court order, trespass and resisting arrest. The torrent of charges are the acts of a vengeful state against a gentle non-violent trucker. His one month long trial opens in Ottawa, October 21, 2024.
The fundraiser was held in a huge barn. Over a hundred people enjoyed an all-you-can-eat dinner, followed by line dancing and entertainment by the Kristin Nicholls country rock band.

CAFE DIRECTOR PAUL FROMM & POLITICAL PRISONER

CLAYTON MCALLISTER

CAFE JOINED THE FREEDOM RALLY ON PARLIAMENT HILL, SEPTEMBER 16

CAFE JOINED THE FREEDOM RALLY ON PARLIAMENT HILL, SEPTEMBER 16

Parliament opened on a warm September Monday. MPs and the press were greeted by 300 freedom fighters from Ontario and Quebec.

The rally lasted all day and was loud and spirited. MPs were told in no uncertain terms that we oppose the freedom throttling Bill C-63, the so-called Online Harms Act. People are fed up with arrogant bureaucracy and freedom crushing measures like the now discredited COVID measures, the freezing of bank accounts, and the endless efforts to restrict dissent.

Alberta MLA Who Was Booted Out of the United Conservative Party for Her Negative Views on the Transgendered is Berated By A Tranny Drag Queen https://

Alberta MLA Who Was Booted Out of the United Conservative Party for Her Negative Views on the Transgendered is Berated By A Tranny Drag Queen

  An exiled Alberta MLA who has been under instructions to “rebuild trust” with the LGBT community has become the subject of a viral video in which one of those trust-building sessions features her being berated by an activist who moonlights as a drag queen named Karla Marx. 

Karla Marx is the stage name of Calgary’s Victoria Bucholtz, a trans activist who goes by the pronouns she/her — and is also a Mount Royal University sessional instructor specializing in German history. During a virtual roundtable with Alberta MLA Jennifer Johnson, Bucholtz opened by asking the Lacombe-Ponoka representative “will you state on the record that trans women are women?”  Johnson said, “I’ve never been asked that before,” and then said she “wanted time to think on that.” 

To this, Bucholtz vowed to “speak out against this meeting.”  “I’m not going to be your pink-washing unless you can tell me right now that you believe that I, as a trans woman … am a woman, then we don’t have a lot to work on here,” said Bucholz, adding, “If you can’t start with that basic foundation principle that we are who we say we are … then I don’t think we’re on the same page.” Bucholz then gave Johnson “one more chance” to agree that trans women are women, but signed off with a smile and a wave when Johnson replied, “Can we disagree and still respect each other?” 

Clips of the encounter have been seen more than a million times on social media, and garnered notice from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, a vocal critic of gender identity activism. “Honestly, you don’t even need to turn up the sound,” wrote Rowling against a post on X describing Bucholtz as a “man attempting to control a woman.”  Bucholtz, meanwhile, did indeed “speak out” against the meeting. “Today several members of the queer community met with MLA Jennifer Johnson … she refused to say on the record that trans women are women. No Jennifer, you haven’t done the work,” posted Bucholtz to an X account under the name KarlaMarx1917, and adorned with a banner featuring a sickle crossed with an ejaculating penis. 

Johnson was expelled as a candidate for the United Conservative Party in 2023 after audio was released of her saying that gender ideology in the public school curriculum was similar to ruining a batch of cookies with a “teaspoon of poop.” “It does not matter that we’re in the top three per cent of the world. Who cares if they got 89 per cent in Chemistry 30? Who cares that they’re entering post-secondary — if they’re chemically castrated?” Johnson can be heard saying in the recording. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith called it a “vile analogy” and declared that if Johnson won her riding she would not be allowed to sit in the UCP caucus. 

Johnson then proceeded to win her riding by one of the widest margins in the province (67 per cent against 23.5 per cent for her NDP challenger) and has been sitting as an independent ever since.  In an apology issued shortly after her ejection from the UCP, Johnson said “although I am concerned about potentially life altering medical procedures for young children, this is an extremely sensitive topic for so many and I need to do a much better job communicating my concerns and objectives.” 

Smith has signalled the possibility that Johnson may be let back into caucus. But in a statement to Global News this week, the premier’s office said that Johnson “has some work to do to rebuild trust and relationships in the LGBT+ community.”

Numerous commenters had framed the Bucholtz encounter as being part of a mandatory session that had been ordered by Smith — a claim that Johnson dismissed in a Facebook statement. “This meeting was at the request and arranged by a constituent of the Lacombe-Ponoka riding, and I was happy to accept their invitation to meet,” wrote Johnson. In addition to Bucholtz, the meeting had featured representatives of the Lacombe Pride Society, Ponoka Pride Society and the Central Alberta Pride Society. “Danielle Smith, her office, and the UCP caucus and party were in no way involved in or aware of this meeting and, contrary to speculation, this meeting has nothing to do with my future as an Independent Member of the Legislature.”

Bill C-63 — Canada’s Darkest Hour

Canada’s darkest hour  In the present day and considering the status of free speech in Canada, it would not be a stretch to say this country is facing its own “darkest hour”.  What else to think when its longstanding history and tradition of Magna Carta-inspired rights and freedoms stand to be lost with the enactment of Bill C-63 (Online Harms Act).  The legislation in questions has been remarked on by C3RF patron, David Solway, as being “nothing less than a censorship closely reminiscent of the justice apparatus in authoritarian states likes China and North Korea”.  He is not alone in this assessment as other notables both domestic and international, such as Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Jordan Peterson, Russell Brand and Margaret Atwood, have likewise chimed in to describe the new law in terms of the “lettres de cachet” once issuable by the king of France to enforce “arbitrary actions and judgments that could not be appealed”.  It’s like Canada has retreated back into the 17th century and the days of the “Star Chamber”.
Margaret Atwood – Bill C-63 will give Canada its own “lettres de cachet”-style legal system It’s easy to see how the Online Harms Act could give rise to Star Chamber or kangaroo courts in Canada.  After all, the legislation calls for: the creation of a “Digital Safety Commission” that can, on the basis of anonymous charges, punish alleged wrongdoers of past and even potential future acts with fines, house arrest, electronic tagging or communication bans; Commission-appointed investigators to conduct warrantless searches and for the Commission to conduct its business without the need to be bound by any legal or technical rules of evidence; and the use of vague definitions of hate speech that will flood the Canadian human rights system with “eye-of-the-beholder” complaints of offensive, discriminatory speech. Such blatant disregard for the most basic tenets of Western judicial philosophy, including “innocent until proven guilty”, are more than a little remarkable.  It might be for this reason that the act throws a bit of a sweetener into the mix with popular measures that serve to protect against the “sexual abuse of children, intimate images shared without consent, and material that can be used to bully a child or encourage them to commit self-harm”.  These clearly harmful activities, however, are already illegal under Canada’s criminal code and seem to be included in Bill C-63 only to give cover to its freedom-crushing measures.
Justice Minister Virani, Bill C-63 will not be split into two parts! Sweetener aside, the legislation represents a baldfaced attack on the Charter rights of everyday Canadian citizens.  The ability of the Digital Safety Commission, for example, to turn anonymous charges, of potential future offenses no less, into serious fines and punishments is a direct assault on the Charter’s Section 7 right to life, liberty and security of the person in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.  Then there is its ability to demand warrantless searches in direct contravention of Section 8 of the Charter and its protections to be secure from unreasonable search and seizure.  When all of these injustices are tied together with a bow in the form of the Commission’s authority to dispense with the evidence requirements of Section 1 of the Charter, we can see that anyone entrapped within the net cast by Bill C-63 will find themselves in a very dark place.  Indeed, the country as a whole may feel it has descended into its darkest hour as the rights and freedoms that used to underpin its reputation as a Western liberal democracy will have evaporated.
Looks like Bill C-63 will supersede the Charter as the supreme law of the land?
Descent into darkness David Solway has made note of the darkened depths to which Canada has descended.  Indeed, if Bill C-63 passes the House and is ratified by the Senate “Canada would no longer be a country any sensible and freedom-loving individual would consider worth living in.”  The rule of law would most certainly be pitched out the window as the citizen would become “utterly dependent on the favour of the government” as he or she was forced through a gauntlet of informers given the power to issue “damaging but unverified accusations”.  And so, citizens will be forced to tread on eggshells as they try not to say, do or even think of anything that, in accordance with Bill C-63, is “likely to foment hatred”.   A subjective standard if ever there was one and one that is inextricably influenced by the eye-of-the-beholder.
Canadian essayist and C3RF patron, David Solway, queries whether Canada “is worth living in” Given the pressure that can be brought to bear on everyday citizens by the subjective eye-of-the-beholder strictures associated with Bill C-63, it’s easy to see how other Charter rights like freedom of religion, assembly, association and mobility, along with a fair and responsible press, will need to be sacrificed to keep offence at bay.  The new Canada that prioritizes the sensibilities of the thin-skinned over the civil liberties of the all is quite a stretch from the nation that had been built up on the tradition of individual sovereignty and the concept of “free men” as conceptualized in the Magna Carta of 1215.  Concepts marvellously captured by John Stuart Mill in his “On Liberty” of 1859 which is well suited as an addition to the reading list of any authority involved with enacting Bill C-63.  After all, its analysis of the “nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual” is one the Bill could have benefited from.
John Stuart Mill “On Liberty” needs to be on the reading lists of Canadian legislators? The framers of the Canadian Charter, like The Honourable Brian Peckford, might have intended for individual sovereignty to be accommodated in the “fundamental” rights section of the document but the intention seems to have faded away over time.  This vanishing act has been aided and abetted by a judiciary besotted  by the ever-flexible concept of the “living tree”.  This doctrine has proven popular with Canadian courts and paved the way for “progressive interpretation” to address the “realities of modern life”.  These new realities, eagerly taken up by the political class, have oftentimes distinguished themselves by their rejection of traditional mores and the development of diverse identity groups which are open to division on the basis of being oppressed or being an oppressor.  Conflict and acrimony reign supreme and the situation is ripe for exploitation by psychopaths with the help of useful idiots.  And so the descent into darkness began.
Charter framers Brian Peckford et all intended for the development of competing camps?
Darkest hour “call to action” The descent in darkness, amazingly begun on the heels of the patriation of the Charter in 1982, has accelerated over the 2015 investiture of Canada’s current Liberal government.  The quickening pace could be seen to pick up almost immediately with the passage of Motion M-103 (Islamophobia).  This motion, true to form and in line with the strategy of identifying and dividing people into camps, shamelessly stated that Canada and Canadians were “systemically racist” and prone to discriminating  against whole religions – particularly Islam.  Many, many accusations would follow as the good folk of once “strong and free” Canada would be labelled as genocidal, climate denying anti-vaxxers who were in urgent need of being reigned in through draconian measures that restricted their ability to express such hateful mutterings.
If diversity is our strength, then why are we so divided and so oppressed? As Canadians navigate through their darkest hour one thing has become abundantly clear, only they have the power to force their betters to reverse course.  As the events of the Wuhan virus pandemic have shown, there is no cavalry coming over the hill to restore our free and democratic society.  Indeed, if anything, it is quite apparent that those given this power over Canadians have abused it to place ever more restrictions on speech as demonstrated by Bill C-63.  As Billboard Chris so eloquently stated, “politicians don’t change the culture, we do!”  You can join in the battle to change our wayward, anti-free speech culture by confronting your federally elected representative by phone, email or, best yet, a personal visit at their constituency office.  Your own Member of Parliament’s contact information may be found here and here are some thoughts for your MP to ponder: using ill-defined “hate speech” to bring citizens to task for what they say is a subjective mug’s game that stands to be abused by “eye of the beholder” sensibilities; allowing anonymous charges to result in prohibitive fines, house arrest, electronic tagging and communication bans is an abuse of your right to security of the person; allowing charges to advance on the basis of what a person might say, or think, is truly Orwellian; and allowing for warrantless searches and seizures is simply a slap in the face to Canada’s supreme law in the form of the Charter that is embedded in our Constitution. Your decision to intervene is critical to turning Canada away from a truly dystopian future for your children and grandchildren.  It’s worthwhile remembering that although Churchill recognized a nation in its darkest hour, he also, in the same speech, recognized the opportunity to turn it into its “finest hour”.



Canadians Must Stop Bill C-63 by Russ Cooper https://cafe.nfshost.com/?p=9958

Canadians Must Stop Bill C-63 by Russ Cooper – September 18, 2024

https://www.canadiancitizens.org/single-post/canadians-must-stop-bill-c-63

Editor’s note: In this article originally published in the National Post, Barbara Kay rips the façade off Bill C-63  (https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/online-harms.html) to expose it for the totalitarian, freedom-crushing piece of legislation that it is. Increasingly, Western countries are using hate speech legislation to silence criticism of poorly thought-out government policies on matters such as immigration and multiculturalism and to prevent citizen reporting about their consequences. Canada is positioning itself as a leader in this censorial trend.

The wrapping to make the horror show that is Bill C-63 more palatable includes regulations against child pornography and online bullying, among other items already covered by the criminal code or that could easily be included as amendments. But the meat of the bill is in the proposed regulations that would crush free speech by empowering the federal cabinet to bypass Parliament in creating legislation and encourage grievance-mongers to make frivolous and malicious accusations without consequence, all while  imposing draconian penalties on offenders, or people merely thought (by some anonymous person) to be likely to be an offender. Bill C-63 makes a mockery of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

We hope that readers of Barbara Kay’s article will sign our petition for Parliament to withdraw or (should it be passed) repeal this bill (it is now in second reading). We are currently seeking a member of Parliament to agree to authorize the online publication of our petition. We will notify our members when this has been done and also post the link to our petition on our website. We also invite you to write your member of Parliament and the prime minister to express your concerns. For Canadians who believe in freedom, now is the time to stand up.


Barbara Kay: Canadians can’t allow the online harms bill to snuff out free speechby Barbara Kay, National Post – September 8, 2024

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-canadians-cant-allow-the-online-harms-bill-to-snuff-out-free-speech

Bill C-63 would punish mere expression and give draconian new powers to government. It’s unfit for a democracy

The sands of time were already running low for Justin Trudeau’s government. Jagmeet Singh’s just-announced withdrawal from their mutually supportive contract has widened the waist of the hourglass. Parliament resumes sitting on Sept. 16, and the Liberals will urgently seek to pass Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, now in its second reading.

If passed in its present incarnation, this deeply flawed bill will drastically curtail freedom of speech in Canada (which, to be fair, is not an outlier on digital crackdowns in the West. Switzerland, of all places, just passed similar legislation).

We already have hate-crime laws in the Criminal Code that address advocacy for genocide, incitement of hatred and the wilful promotion of hatred. Apart from its laudatory intentions in removing online content that sexually victimizes children, Bill C-63 seeks to curb all online hate speech through unnecessary, inadvisable and draconian measures inappropriate to a democracy.

The law would create a new transgression: an “offence motivated by hated” which

would raise the maximum penalty for advocacy of genocide from five years to life

imprisonment. What kind of mindset considers the mere expression of hateful ideas as equivalent in moral depravity to rape and murder? Such instincts call to my mind the clever aperçu by anti-Marxist pundit David Horowitz that “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”

Another red flag: The law would give new powers to the federal cabinet to pass

regulations that have the same force as legislation passed by Parliament, and that

could, say, shut down a website. Unlike legislation, regulations created by cabinet do not require debate, votes or approval of Parliament. They can be decided in secrecy and come into force without public consultation or debate.

Yet another is the restoration of the “communication of hate speech” offence to the

Canadian Human Rights Act, a provision similar to the one repealed in 2012. Frivolous or malicious complaints could be made against persons or organizations, granting complainants significant potential for financial reward at no personal cost, win or lose. Moreover, under this law, a complainant’s sense of injury from published words would trump a defence of objective truth. This is an open invitation for myriad social malcontents and grievance-mongers to swarm the system, with no regard for the inevitable harm done to those who they target.

One group experiencing alarm for their survival under Bill C-63’s proposed strictures is the Canadian Citizens for Charter Rights and Freedoms (C3RF). C3RF educates Canadians about their Charter rights and freedoms, and proposes legislation and regulatory frameworks that guard freedom of expression. They have published numerous critical articles on topics such as gender ideology, critical race theory and vaccine mandates: hot-button issues that are sure to offend some person or group, and that a human rights tribunal might well deem hateful under the online harms law, worthy of punishment sufficient to shut them down altogether.

I’m a fan of C3RF’s founder and director, Royal Canadian Air Force Major (ret’d) Russ Cooper, a decorated CF-18 combat pilot, and an expert in the field of post-9/11 civil aviation security. Cooper came to my attention in 2017, when the House of Commons passed M-103, a non-binding motion, after some controversy. M-103 called for a “whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination including Islamophobia.”

The government was eager to pass it quickly, but a significant number of concerned citizens balked at their unwillingness to define “Islamophobia.” Was it hatred of Muslims, or of Islam? If it was bigotry against Muslims, why wasn’t “anti-Muslim” good enough? The difference is existential.

As the Liberals’ stonewalling on the definition continued, it became clear to a significant swath of the population that if M-103’s wording was accepted in future legislation, the Trudeau government would effectively have facilitated an Islam entitlement, similar to others in Europe granted by the European Court of Human Rights to preserve “religious peace” (except it hasn’t). Cooper moved so swiftly and competently to harness their collective energy that Conservative MPs received upwards of 900,000 critical emails within a few days of the M-103 vote.

Since then, C3RF’s membership has swelled to tens of thousands embedded within a network of other like-minded freedom- and truth-seeking organizations. As Cooper told me in an email, “If there is one good thing you can say about the draconian measures foisted upon the regular folk of Canada in the days since M-103, it’s that these vexations have unified a whole new cadre of discerning citizens, tired of being pushed around and taken for granted.”

C3RF, in conjunction with allies like Veterans for Freedom and Act! for Canada, are

working on a House of Commons petition calling for the cancellation of Bill C-63. Once a parliamentary sponsor seizes that baton and sets it in motion, I will be sure to alert readers. It would be wonderful if it were signed by every one of the 32 per cent of Canadians a

The End of Freedom of Speech in Canada: The Case of Dr. Mark Trozzi

Ethical doctors across Canada in recent years have been persecuted for telling the truth. Any doctor who went against the Covid narrative faced suspension or revocation of their license to practice, and their professional reputation was also attacked, making it unlikely they would ever work in their chosen field again.

Few in Canada have been more vocal in telling the truth than Dr. Mark Trozzi, who’s license was revoked last year.

Mark is represented before the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons by lawyer Michael Alexander, who has been working a very clever strategy since day one of the CPSO’s actions against Dr. Trozzi. A strategy that assumed that the CPSO would conduct a kangaroo court to punish Dr. Trozzi for speaking out against the narrative. Which they did. But it is a strategy that also backed the CPSO into a legal corner, in which justifying their persecution can only be done under violations of their own rules.

That strategy is about to come to fruition.

The CPSO, in the upcoming final hearing on the case of Dr. Mark Trozzi will either have to exonerate him and reinstate his license, or engage in an obvious gross miscarriage of justice in front of thousands of witnesses. With no justification whatsoever for their actions.

That hearing will take place on October 8th.

And this case carries far more significance than just Dr. Trozzi’s right to practice, and to do so in an ethical manner. With Bill C-293 before the Senate this fall, a bill which will pass into law the Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness Act, a draconian document that will enable our government to surveil, censor and control us all, to attack our food supply and our resources, our right to move freely, to dictate to us supposed health measures we must follow, and to do all of this at the behest of a foreign power, the World Health Organization, a loss for Dr. Trozzi will mean the end of our rights to freedom of speech in this country.

Michael,
thanks so much for giving us your time today to give us this update on this very important case with Dr. Mark Trozy. We’ve discussed this several times in the past with yourself and Dr. Trozy. And of course, what we’re talking about is the CPSO,
suspending or actually, I think, revoking at this point in time his license because he basically just pulled people the truth about vaccines, about COVID, as has happened with many doctors. And this is such an important case because,
as you and I were discussing before the interview, with things like Bill C -293 coming, which is going to be the Pandemic Preparedness Act in Canada, which is just chock full of future violations of our rights.
We have to protect the rights of people to be able to tell the truth. So I’d like to start by just, we have done this before. We’ve done a number of interviews on this, but for people who haven’t seen them, please give us a very short summary of what’s happened with Dr.
Trozy from the beginning to now. Okay. So Mark Trosey was leading a private life in the fall of 2020. He was an ER physician in Bankrupt,
Ontario. He ran the ER unit in the hospital, and he was a university professor. He’s taught at three medical schools in Ontario. And he was in charge of preparing his ER department for the pandemic.
So masking protocols. He went beyond the call of due, I think, in terms of putting protocols in place. So he had everyone Fully prepared. Let’s fast forward to late fall 2020.
There are news reports all over the country that hospitals have overwhelmed with COVID patients and ER departments in particular are heavy problems. Meanwhile, Marks Department is totally empty.
Right. Nobody’s showing. As were many. As were many of them across the country, as has been proven over and over and over again, empty departments. And the when they were manufacturing, suppose it over -prouded emergency departments.
They were shipping patients in from all over the place into a particular hospital so they could then show that that hospital was overflowing with patients while the rest of them were all empty. Yes. And Mark verified this because he started calling colleagues around Canada and the U .S.
They all reported that their ER rooms went. Okay. So then he said, what is going on here? So the professor in him, you know, turned him to research and he started looking into the shots and the ingredients and said,
oh, oh, these are not vaccines. This is gene therapy. It’s not, you know, if the shots are being misrepresented to the public, this could be dangerous. It’s very experimental. And he decided to go on sabbatical in January of 2021 to do a deep dive on COVID science.
And he started publishing the results of his research on Dr. Trozy .org, which is a newsletter website that he’s created in early 2021. Well,
of course, somebody at Sick Kids Hospital, a research scientist, complained to the college that Dr. Trozy was spreading misinformation. So they began to investigate him and was led to a prosecution.
And it’s taken three years to get through the college process. but we finally got a decision from the college’s Discipline Tribunal, and they revoked his license because apparently he’s incompetent,
unprofessional, has violated the standard of practice, and all this because he wrote a few medical exemptions for COVID -19 shots, but in their view,
the real problem was he’s guilty of the crime of spreading misinformation. In other words, disagreeing with the narrative. And I think we have to make it very clear just how quickly they did this. As you said, he was on sabbatical.
Lutschku, who had been, I also represented her. She had been suspended for totally spurious reasons. She was accused of writing one medical exemption, but they have absolutely no proof of that. And so,
yeah, so, I mean, she had an elder care practice for the most part. So I suggested that Mark and Dr. Krishemaker come in and fill in for her. And yeah,
they weren’t there but four hours and the college closed it. Right. But now you’ve come up with, I think, an extremely clever defense, and you’ve been planning this from the beginning with the CPSO,
where you’re going after them on something called the standard correctness. Please explain exactly what that means. Okay. So why have we hung in there through this three -year process with the college to get to this point?
Well, the Supreme Court made a decision in 2019 that has really changed the power relationship between the individual and the administrative state. And the Supreme Court said that if you are facing off against the tribunal and there is a statute -based right of appeal under the home legislation for the tribunal,
in other words, a right of appeal into the court system, you go into the court system on the standard of correctness, which is the highest standard of review for a court. So that’s the same standard applied by an appeal court or the Supreme Court candidate itself.
And this standard requires the court to look at the decision of a tribunal and test to see whether it got the right answer or the correct answer on every material issue of law.
Now, under the old system, if you went on a statute -based appeal, you would go in on a low standard called reasonableness, where the court was just kind of looking for due process issues,
where both sides heard, did everybody get a right to make written submissions, was there any bias on the part of the decision makers, that kind of thing. But there’s great deference shown under this old standard to the tribunal’s interpretation of the law.
So the tribunal is allowed to come up with a number of reasonable outcomes on every legal issue. But those days are over it. Even though the Supreme Court changed the standard in 2019. We have not had a major case that challenges the administrative state on the standard of correctness in Ontario or other parts of the country.
So this is a first, and we worked our way through this arduous three -year process at the college in order to get into the court system on the standard of correctness because I believe that the college will lose on that standard.
And by the way, the CPSO has never been challenged on its core legal principles on the standard of correctness in its entire history. practice.
The Ontario Court of Appeal has said that administrative bodies that establish policies, guidelines, statements cannot rely upon those things.
Let’s just call them guidelines in general. Administrative bodies cannot use guidelines and enforce them as if they are the law. So they’re just recommendations.
They’re just really a body saying, so in the case of the CPSO, the CPSO has COVID -19 guidelines. I mean, they would refer to them as restrictions, but they’re guidance. And one of those guidelines is that no doctor may say anything that calls into question,
you know, public health policies and recommendations regarding COVID -19, or you’ll lose your license. So this is one of the so -called guidelines that were used against Dr.
Trozen. So, you know, the Ontario courts have taken this very strong position, and yet the college and the tri – the administrative state in general and reaffirmed that it has fundamental limits on its power.
Now, essentially what happened with the CPSO, with suspending licenses, revoking licenses, it is a basis form of censorship. But as you pointed out,
under freedom of expression laws, the government can censor threats of assault, death threats, inciting violence, child pornography, and hate speech, And nothing that Mark said falls under any of those categories.
Right. Those are all… They’re going after him for things that he said, as you said before, on his website, Dr .Trosy .org, but that’s not covered under any of this.
That’s right. Those are the exceptions to the guarantee of freedom of expression. So their exceptions, because they don’t advance any of the fundamental purposes of free expression. They have nothing to do with the pursuit of the truth,
for example, or the perfection of government. So those are exceptions. Mark obviously, as you pointed out, does not fall into any of those categories. So they have gone after him simply because he has expressed a minority or dissenting point of view on COVID issues.
And so my reading of our constitutional law from 1939 onward is that minority or dissenting opinions deserve absolute protection,
whether you’re under the Old British North America Act or whether you are under the charter. And we’ve got case law, even in the charter era, to establish that. It’s just on passing strange that no lawyer in the country has made this argument during the COVID period.
We will be the first people to make this argument that it is absolutely wrong to shut anyone down, simply because they’re expressing a minority opinion on an issue of public importance. Now,
if I’m understanding the notes that you sent me correctly, though, we do have a bit of a challenge in terms of the precedent that was set with the Jordan Peterson case in regards to minority opinions. And what’s that challenge? Let me tell you something.
There’s a way to distinguish the Jordan Peterson case. So the court in Peterson said that the college wasn’t trying to, the College of Psychologists, was not trying to regulate Jordan Peterson,
the substance of Jordan Peterson’s views, just the form in which he expressed them. His rhetoric was a little too inflammatory. And so, really, we’re just going to re -educate him about the use of the language and the appropriate use of language.
We’re not really trying to shift down his views. So the court says, that’s fine. You know, that’s fine. You can regulate form because you’re not trying to regulate substance. That’s a very problematic decision because,
of course, once you start regulating the form to the degree the College of Psychologists would like to, you are going to regulate substance because every Peterson will have to wonder, well, every second verb, am I using the right verb?
Am I using the right adjective? Am I being too inflammatory today? This kind of decision will obviously have a chilling effect on the substance of speech. But anyway, this case in the eyes of the court is about form, not substance.
The Trozy case is about substance. Because they are taking issue with the substance of his views. Their concern about some of his political rhetoric is a secondary concern. Okay.
We want to win on the issue of substance. Now that gets into his tribunal hearings where he presented two very well -researched documents to support everything that he said and the CPSO brought in their supported three expert witnesses,
none of whom were able to or even really tried to refute what he said. Yeah, so this is, let me take this in two parts, Will. So, you know, the purpose of the regulated Health Professions Act in Ontario is to prevent patient harm.
So normally you have to proceed against a physician, you know, if you’re going to prosecute a physician or even investigating a physician, you have to have some reasonable belief that in all probability the physician has caused harm or will cause harm.
There’s no proof here that Dr. Trosey has caused any harm. There’s no patient complaint. There’s no complaint from anyone about patient harm. So they’ve got a big problem here.
They have not even met the most basic, you know, a standard for even investigating him. Okay. So they didn’t, during the tribunal hearing,
they weren’t able to make the case that the actually caused patient harm. Okay. So that’s part one of that. light expert report.
It was eight pages long. Only three pages were devoted to science. There were just a handful of scientific references there. And the expert took the position that,
yeah, Mark had a minority view on COVID issues. He didn’t say that Mark had violated the scientific consensus. He just said he had a minority view and then said having a minority view violates the standard of practice.
So that’s a big problem in there. But we had a right of reply to that initial report. So Mark provided a 30 -page report with 29 scientific and statistical references from mainstream scientific sources like the New England Journal of Medicine,
the Journal of the American Medical Association. He had stats there for public health Canada, statistics Canada, and so on. They’re no junk science. The college’s expert witness on science did not reply to Mark’s reply.
He had a right to, under the rules to reply. He didn’t. He just sent us a one -page letter, essentially saying, oh, I’m right, you guys are wrong. So we provided a reply to that.
We provided quite a lengthy reply. So we actually had two replies. That was never refuted. So Mark provided close to 200 scientific references from well -respected peer -reviewed journals and other legitimate sources.
And we got their expert witness to admit on cross -examination that he did not address even one of those citations and did not attempt to refute Mark on any of his scientific conclusions.
So here we have the college’s expert witness who’s supposed to, you know, who’s supposed to prove that Mark is wrong. He never even attempted to do it. the supposed harms from resulting from spreading misinformation about public health.
So she testified about those harms in general. But she did not attempt to connect any of those harms, anything that Mark said or did. In fact, I got her to admit on cross -examination.
She didn’t even really know anything about Mark. Okay. So this is wrong as a matter of law. You cannot take conclusions reach from an external source.
unrefuted on COVID science. I believe that to be the case, and we’re seeking to have that vindicated on appeal. So we’ve got three supposed expert witnesses for the CPSO,
none of whom came up with anything of any substance, one of whom admitted she didn’t even know who Mark Trosey was essentially. Now, at the same time, you brought in some expert witnesses, one of whom was Dr. Peter McCullough,
and the CPSO tribunal refused to consider his testimony. Why was that? Well, that’s really amazing. I mean, you have something called a voir dire, which is a mini -hearing when you bring in an expert witness,
because the expert witness has to be qualified as an expert. So the tribunal gets determined. Do we want to hear him? Is he or she truly an expert? So we got through that. They couldn’t deny, I mean, McCullough presented,
like, you know, a thousand publications for them. Yes. We can’t deny The band’s an expert. Absolutely one of the most qualified heart and kidney specialists out there who’s co -authored,
I don’t know, hundreds and hundreds of papers. There’s no denying he is absolutely an expert. Plus, he’s still running a practice where he is seeing patients and treating them for COVID and seeing the people who are being harmed by the vaccines.
You’re not really probably going to find a much better expert witness than Dr. McCullough. And Yet, they refused to hear his testimony. Yes, well, they heard his testimony. I mean, they tried to disqualify him.
We did get him in for about half an hour in the end after a two -day battle. I mean, he was very good with the college counsel assigned to the expert witness,
Wardier, hearing. I mean, he just manhanded her, actually. So I didn’t have to do too much. But The point with his testimony is that the tribunal said that it,
that Dr. McCullough, during his cross -examination by college counsel, indicated that he was not in complete agreement with all the secondary sources he cited in his expert report.
So just think about that for a moment. They de legitimized his expert testimony on that basis. So if you’re a high school student, you learn that you can cite a passage from a book or an article on a point that you think is persuasive.
That doesn’t mean that you have to agree with everything in the book or the article. I mean, anybody who’s written anything knows that you have to use your sources critically and you will pick and choose according to your own, you know,
the argument that you want to make. So this is, you know, So they’re suggesting that this whole approach to putting a paper together is fundamentally wrong. So just think about the implication of this.
The moment that you cite an article, if you do not agree with everything in the article, you can’t cite it. And this is where I have to stop you and ask what I think is an extremely important question. Because you’ve just made that clear that they’re going to ignore Dr.
his testimony because he’s honestly said, of all of these references I’ve cited, I don’t necessarily 100 % agree with everything they said. But here’s the important stuff that I do agree with. And you’ve just made this point,
very good point, that say you’re a high school student, you take a quote from a book or whatever. It doesn’t mean you agree with the entire book. So they’re disallowing on the basis that he does not agree 100 % with everything in the sources he cited.
Is there anything in writing by the CPSO that makes that rule clear. Oh, that was the position they took in their closing arguments.
And they tried to prove this on cross -examination. And it was very ham -handed, I would say, Jeune. And this is where McCullough really handed it to them. Because, you know,
scientists like Dr. McCullough, they look They look at empirical articles with a lot of data in them. And they don’t necessarily accept the conclusions of the articles. They take the data out and they crunch their own numbers to see whether the conclusions hold.
And if they don’t, then they use the data to reach different conclusions. This is very standard. This is what people do in the field of science. And so we explain to them. And in some cases, even just taking the data from the articles and,
you know, rejigging the numbers, rethinking the data in order to reach his own conclusion. So this is decision.
Right, but I’m driving to an important point here. I’m trying to, I kind of trying to play a lawyer if you’ll forgive me, because I am driving to a point. I’m going to ask that question again. Prior to this decision,
is there anything in the CPSO’s guidelines, anything written down anywhere that says that you can’t accept someone’s evidence cited from whatever,
a journal, whatever, unless you agree with everything in that article. Nothing whatsoever will. So my point is, they made it up on the spot because it suited them. They made it up on the spot because they were losing.
Right. Thank you. That’s what I was looking for. So now, this gets back now to a conclusion that you drew of,
and I’m not a very obvious one, of bias towards Mark Troese, please explain the elements of that bias. Okay. They will,
our experts, you know, we’re more persuaded by them for various reasons. Even though they’ve only cited a few studies, we find them more persuasive than Trosey’s 200 studies. So it’s open to them to say them.
But to do that, of course, they have to demonstrate that they grappled with Mark’s evidence, and they didn’t. They don’t even mention Mark’s two self -authored reports. So I think this whole decision falls on that very point because that’s something in law called a palpable and overriding error of fact.
And if you have that in a decision, the decision goes away. Okay. Now, you have been fighting this war now for three years. And I have to say, I have so much respect for your approach,
Michael, I think it’s extremely clever because you were expecting to end up here. This is where you’ve been driving towards. And to put them into this corner. They’re going to have to defend their standard of correctness, and from everything you’ve shown me,
they can’t. So where are we at right now? We go to a hearing on October 8th. Both sides have submitted their factums, which are the legal briefs.
Both sides have submitted the evidence they want to rely upon. And now it’s just up to the court to review that evidence and our briefs. And then we fight it out in court.
And what, can you make any kind of projection on what you think is going to happen? Or maybe the fairer question would be this. If they decide in Mark’s favor, what happened as a result of that?
If they still decide against him, how in the world do they justify it? Well, we’re going before the divisional court And the Divisional Court has heard a number of cases on this lower standard of reasonableness.
So even if you don’t have a statutory right of appeal, you know, you can still go into the court system to challenge a tribunal. But if you do it without this statute -based right of appeal, you do it on this lower standard of reasonableness.
And so cases so far by the Divisional Court have been decided in favor of the college of bodies, you know,
because they showed a lot of deference to the way the bodies interpreted their case law and their home statutes. So it’s going to be an existential moment for this court,
because we will probably get some of the same judges who have made those decisions on this lower standard. The issue here is, will the judges stand up and look at this case on the standard of correctness and forget about what they did under the old standard?
okay this is this case is much more important than people realize,
and I want to outline folks why. You will have recently seen my interview with lawyer Lisa Mira on Bill C -293, which has gone through the House,
has passed the first reading of the Senate. If we don’t stop it, we’ll very likely get passed before the end of this year. This is the Canada’s Pandemic Preparedness Act, and it’s chock full of future violations of our rights,
not just the stuff that happened during the pandemic, but more than that gets into surveillance and all. this case,
that’s setting this country up for further tyranny and the silencing of any qualified voices that speak out against it. I don’t think the importance of this can be overstated.
That’s absolutely right, Will. That is what is the state. I mean, if Mark is defeated on this, then really no professional, no academic, with expertise in a particular area,
a particular area can just stand up and say, I disagree, and here are the reasons why, and take a look at my science, take a look at my thinking, whatever. It’s over. So this is what’s at stake here.
And it’s something, too, that’s of importance to citizens across the country. I mean, if they can censor the Dr. Trozes of the world and the Jordan Peterson’s, they won’t think twice about censoring you.
So we are trying to get the court to recognize that it is wrong. but it applies to everybody.
So if we can’t win on this argument, I’m telling you freedom of expression is over in this country. Yes. Now, you and Mark are in a position where you need some financial assistance, some fundraising.
Give us the details on that because folks, this is so important. And if you can help, please help because we ought to win this case. It’s so important. Well, we’ve been raising money over the past 18 months.
The first year of my representation of Mark was funded by the Justice Center in Calgary, but in the past couple of years, we’ve had to rely almost exclusively on donations. I have not received any money for the hundreds of thousands of dollars of work I’ve put into the case.
Any money that we have raised by way of donation has gone to pay third -party contractors. There are many, many expenses involved in carrying forward a case like this just to bring in production personnel for a virtual hearing costs about $3 ,000 a day.
And we had seven days of a seven day hearing with money. So things get expensive pretty quickly. So we have got to bring other people on to assist for our hearing on October the 8th.
And so we are trying to raise money with that aim and view. So if people would like to donate to this cause, they can go to our website, which is www .W .W.
Justiceformedicine .com. Okay. So justice for medicine .com. And there’s a donate button there, and that will take you to a page where you can donate online or you can send us a check if that,
if you’d prefer. Okay. And now the hearing, I guess, I’m using the right term is October the 8th? How, Is that likely to be a one -day thing or is it could a stretch out for a while?
Yeah, it’s going to be a half -day. It’s going to be a half -day hearing. It could go into the early afternoon. So I think each side gets about an hour and a half to present its position.
And it will be live. It will be, I mean, it’s going to be an in -person hearing. It’s not going to be virtual, okay? So, I mean, there’ll probably be some streaming available from the court and we’ll provide information about that at Justice for Medicine.
But this is going to be an in -person hearing. And it will be at Osgood Hall, which is at the corner of Queen University in Toronto at 10 a .m. on August 8.
So if you want to come out and hopefully see justice in action, you’re entitled as a member of the public to sit in and watch the perceivance.
How many people will that room hold, Michael? I’m not sure right now. It varies from room to room, but I would guess about 200. All right.
Well, as you know, and as many of my viewers know, I’m also the founder, Strong and Free Canada. We have some 30 ,000 people on our mailing list. I’m going to make it a personal mission to fill that room. Thanks.
Well, I think it’s important that the public show up and that the college and the court be aware that people are deeply concerned about this case and we’re deeply concerned about the status of their basic rights.
And because it’s much, much harder for the courts to get away with this kind of tyranny when they know they’re being watched. Yes. I’d like to see it that way.
I Yeah. You know, the press, of course, will be there. So I think that’s important because, you know, we want to make sure that there’s no temptation to buy us on the part of anyone who might hear this.
And we’re hoping for fair questions and fair comments. So we’re hoping that public exposure will ensure that that will be the way the hearing will be conducting.
Fair questions, fair comments, in short, justice. Right. Michael, thank you so much for your efforts. And, of course, folks, we will keep you posted on this. I’m assuming by the evening of the 8th,
by the British by the morning of the 9th, you’ll have an update for me to tell me what happened. Absolutely will. Thanks so much for having me on today. All right. Thank you, Michael.

Ex-Political Prisoner Brad Love Faces Death Threats; RCMP Do Nothing  

Ex-Political Prisoner Brad Love Faces Death Threats; RCMP Do Nothing               

This has not been an easy summer for political prisoner Brad Love. Even before the Fort McMurray man was released from prison on July 31, he received bad news. He was informed by the prison authorities that his car had been stolen. A former resident of the house he shares with several others, returned, broke into Brad’s room and stole his car keys and made off with his car.
               When he was released, the authorities made no effort to provide transportation from the Peace River across the province to his Fort McMurray home. Fortunately, a friend travelled to the prison and gave him a ride. On reaching Fort McMurray, he learned more bad news. The police reported that his car had been found, but it had been totally trashed. Mr. Love was not even allowed to examine HIS OWN property in the pound by the the local RCMP until he paid a fee for storage. He has still not paid and has yet to see his car.
             More bad news awaited Brad when he tried to access his bank account. The car thief had made off with Brad’s cheque book and written cheques for over $10,000 — until the account was emptied. Brad castigated the bank’s sloppy security. He seldom writes cheques and the signature bore no resemblance to Brad’s. The bank will eventually reimburse Brad as cashing this raft of cheques was their fault but they are taking their time.
            And the car thief, forger? You would think even Inspector Clouseau could solve this case, The RCMP know his name, they have copious evidence of his thefts and forgeries. Yet, they tell Mr. Love nothing! He calls the RCMP frequently. They don’t return calls.
          On August 20, a late model car with four men pulled up and confronted Mr. Love at his front door. “We’re going to fucking kill you, Love,” they threatened. Mr. Love describes them as shady truck pusher types. He got their licence plate number. A few minutes later, another car appeared. It stopped and its scruffy looking occupants repeated the same threat: “We’re going to fucking kill you, Love.”
           Brad immediately called the police on 911. It took 90 minutes for the Mounties to answer this “emergency call.” Their only excuse was: “We were waiting for backup.” The Mounties explained that the threats were, well, not really actionable threats. Mr. Love could only remember the numerous times and a phone call with persistent questioning of an MPP or newspaper editor resulted in a quick visit from the RCMP and, sometimes, charges of harassment.
        Three weeks have passed. No action has been taken by the RCMP against those who made threats whose licence number and address Mr. Love has provided. And, of course, they don’t return phone calls. “Those were death threats. Who’s going to protect me?” a frustrated Brad Love asks.