by Brad Salzberg

CAP

March 3, 2022

Welcome to the wonderful world of Canadian Liberalism. To comprehend its transformation from what it used to be to what it is today, we point to a definitive example. The treatment of Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich is a political and legal outrage.

Appearing in court in shackles, Ms. Lich was brought in front of a judge who ran as a Liberal MP candidate in 2011.

R. vs McNeil, 1996: “No prisoner should be handcuffed in court unless there are reasonable grounds for the apprehending that he will be violent or will attempt to escape.” Not only was Tamara Lich non-violent throughout the Truckers Protest– so was every person who protested along with her.

Ontario Court Justice Julie Bourgeois denied Ms. Lich bail, having deemed the convoy organizer a risk to reoffend. Lich’s lawyer later filed an affidavit stating that had she known Bourgeois is a former Liberal MP candidate, she would have requested the justice to recuse herself from the case.

We turn to comparisons. On March 31, 2021, Haleema Mustafa, a Toronto-area woman accused of leaving Canada to join the Islamic State, was released on bail. Mustafa and her husband have been charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group.

In August, 2021, Omar Mohamed, an Ontario man who travelled to Syria and called for attacks in Canada was released from prison on a terrorism peace bond. The Parole Board of Canada said it was concerned he might commit further terrorist offences, but he was released anyway. About a year later, police once again arrested Mohamed.

All are equal before the law? Witness as government wage war against peaceful protestors. What hath democracy wrought? The answer lingers in silence within our society. Canada’s democratic traditions have morphed into neo-totalitarian practices.

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  1. Why would anyone think the courts were legitimate when the government and the police and the mainstream media are not. The courts in BC last year trashed the trespass act and the land act and the water act to give a billionaire sole access to two public lakes.

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