A lot of people say things like "Canada doesn't have free speech because it doesn't have a first amendment."
The reality is worse than that. Canada is one of just a few countries to have freedom of speech enshrined in its constitution, specifically the 1984 constitution act that Includes the charter of rights and freedoms explicitly giving all Canadians freedom of speech.
The courts strike down laws on constitutional grounds all the time, even. The truckers won many of the cases brought during the convoy for example.
People will point at the notwithstanding clause as an example of how Canada doesn't actually have any rights, but to invoke the notwithstanding clause an unconstitutional law needs to be effectively renewed every 5 years. It's a lever that is often threatened but rarely used.
The real problem is that you can't rely on laws to police the government. The people in government need to hold those as sancrosanct because otherwise the government which is filled with lawyers we'll just find a way around the laws that they're not allowed to break. And that's what we get to see in Canada.
The reality is worse than that. Canada is one of just a few countries to have freedom of speech enshrined in its constitution, specifically the 1984 constitution act that Includes the charter of rights and freedoms explicitly giving all Canadians freedom of speech.
The courts strike down laws on constitutional grounds all the time, even. The truckers won many of the cases brought during the convoy for example.
People will point at the notwithstanding clause as an example of how Canada doesn't actually have any rights, but to invoke the notwithstanding clause an unconstitutional law needs to be effectively renewed every 5 years. It's a lever that is often threatened but rarely used.
The real problem is that you can't rely on laws to police the government. The people in government need to hold those as sancrosanct because otherwise the government which is filled with lawyers we'll just find a way around the laws that they're not allowed to break. And that's what we get to see in Canada.
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