WTF?

[conuly]

[Poll #377697]

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[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

I'd avoid Canada, due to the human rights issues.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

What human rights issues would those be? The fact that same-sex marriage is legal? The fact that rights for gay and lesbian people, and in fact all minorities (racial, sexual)are are protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? The fact that you can't get arrested for wearing a t-shirt with a political saying on it, as opposed to the United States where police visit you for something you wrote in your LJ?

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

"Not With Standing" status (http://www.sentex.net/~nexus23/naa_02.html).

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I think you mean the "notwithstanding" clause. It's never been used to suspend civil rights. It actually replaced a much more repressive measure, the War Measures Act, which is sort of akin to the USA PATRIOT Act in allowing government to suspend civil rights and freedoms during a time or war or insurrection or "threatened insurrection."

The province of Alberta has threatened to use the notwithstanding clause to forbid same-sex marriages being performed in that province, but consitutional experts say it won't hold up; that's not what it was designed for.

The clause was put into the constitution to placate Quebecers who wanted to be able to opt out of federal programs. Unfortunately they seem to use it to forbid businesses from posting signs in English.

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

Are you saying that Michelle Dawson is misrepresenting Canadian constitutional law?

[parashiggy.livejournal.com]

She is.

War Mesures Law was used once, in 1970, for a couple of beatnisk. This is it.

My country is the land of the snow, but, also, a land of freedom, where also can express their opinions.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I can't comment on the specific legalities of her case, not being a lawyer. I have never had my rights denied me under the Charter or in any other case.

From what I've heard, autistics don't have it much better anywhere else in the world. Discrimination against autists seems to be systematic.