Thread by @sunnshiiny

Thanks for writing this @MgS_2011.

Albertans need to read this thread. It’s a harrowing nightmare in the making.

But Canadians need to read this as well. Because this is what conservatives have planned for ROC.

https://twitter.com/mgs_2011/status/1454969123004321798

You can easily observe that law enforcement is already on this trajectory.

-Violating human rights during arrests
-racial bias towards arrests and public interactions
-an increase in radicalization of officers
-surveillance of private citizens
-protecting property not people

@MgS_2011 is warning us. Alberta is moving into full blown fascism.

Law enforcement loyal to the government & imbued with police state authority is a classic fascist characteristic.

Think SA Brownshirts theholocaustexplained.org/the-nazi-rise-… & Italian Blackshirts. britannica.com/topic/Blackshi…

With a provincial police force loyal to UCP, human rights, freedom and liberty would be eradicated. If the police have the power to document history as they see it and imagine it, we’re royally screwed.

These powers could be used by the government to radically reform Alberta.

If police document covid is over and endemic, then it is accepted as truth. No medical opinions would matter because when the police write it down, it becomes fact.

With no access to the courts, human rights tribunals would be the only recourse to grieve this issue.

Now do you understand why the expansion of CHRT’s purview is being fought by the federal government?

Why this court case against AFN, Blackstock and CHRT is not about children at all. It’s about stemming the expansion of CHRT’s power grab.

The far right may be using Blackstock’s activism and rage over being surveilled illegally to aid in the CHRT’s power grab.

I say may, because the possibility remains that radical FN are aiding the far right in this endeavour. I don’t know one way or the other.

Is Cindy Blackstock being used as a “weapon” to unravel the judiciary as a branch of fed govt? It wouldn’t surprise me. Complicit or unwitting, this radical faction of FN is aligned with the far right’s ambition to neuter legitimate federal authority. That’s fact not conjecture.

I’m gobsmacked myself that I didn’t realize this. FFS!

In the effort to privatize (read control) justice and the courts, control of the quasi-judicial authorities is essential. That includes federal & provincial human rights orgs.

This has already occurred at the macro level.

Foreign Investment Protection Agreements (FIPAs) remove the Canadian judiciary from adjudicating conflicts.

International trade tribunals have replaced the Canadian courts in determining responsibility for loss of profits and compromised national sovereignty.

How? I’ll explain.

If a federal government creates policy that compromises the profits of a foreign investor in Canada (covered by a FIPA, like China), the investor can sue the GOC for loss of profit and removal of the legislation limiting their profits.

IN A SECRET TRIBUNAL.

The International Trade Tribunal has been created to keep proceedings secret (confidential) until a decision is made. And there is no recourse for an appeal. It’s a final decision.

Meaning, LPC has legislated carbon levies & if it impacts foreign investor profits, they can sue.

It’s all behind a shroud of confidentiality. The public won’t know it’s even happening until the final decision is made. Neither litigant can discuss the case publicly. Meaning Chinese foreign investors (among others) could be suing Canada for multiple issues & we wouldn’t know.

The public won’t know until the Tribunal, stacked with corporate investor adjudicators, decides whether carbon levies negatively impact foreign investor profits. The tribunal can order Canada to repay any lost profits and GOC could be forced to rescind the offending legislation.

Especially if several foreign investors are suing GOC on the same basis.

The tribunal is not required to recognize natural disasters, climate change, section 35 indigenous human rights or any other Canadian based legislation that protects national sovereignty or human rights.

This is the booby trap that Harper set for all future governments.

That’s on a macro level.

Kenney is attempting to implement this on the provincial level.

Many may not remember, but UCP gave themselves absolute power to legislate in April 2020.

They revoked that power in Spring 2021. But how many anti democratic laws were passed that citizens didn’t notice because of the pandemic?

This law @MgS_2011 is warning about is one of them.

I remember some discussion of the dangers of this law.

But I didn’t then connect the ramifications of this provincial legislation with an overall strategy. Right now it’s limited to drunk driving. Get caught driving drunk and your licence can be removed instantly and you have zero access to the courts to prove otherwise.

Meaning, if you get pulled over by the police & they record that you’ve been drinking and are over the legal limit, you have no access to the court to prove you were actually returning home from visiting the hospital and hadn’t touched a drop of alcohol. crystalgaze2.blogspot.com/2021/02/albert…

There is no appeal or access to the court. The police information is accepted as fact. Truth and facts have become irrelevant.

Piss off the “powers that be” and you can lose your independence in transportation. And be levied several fines to create additional stress.

You’d have to access a human rights tribunal or sue the government of Alberta and law enforcement for breach of your Charter rights. Costing you much financially. And it would take time to get through the federal courts or through Alberta or Canadian human rights tribunal.

In the mean time, you can’t drive.

This is the same with Bill 1 anti protest legislation blocking public infrastructure. The law is bogus and breaches Charter rights and freedoms.

But who has been brave enough to take on the Alberta government to prove that in court? A few.

UCP is removing our human rights and freedoms one by one. Using transfer of authority to police to determine guilt extra-judiciously. And now they are planning their own loyal police force.

F**k!

The UCP needs to be removed ASAP.

Now it makes sense. The judiciary is being rendered irrelevant.

Harper & Kenney complained often about the court’s decisions interfering with parliamentary/legislature purview.

This is urgent. We cannot permit a provincial police force. macleans.ca/news/canada/ha…

My god these far right politicians are cunning.

I said Kenney wasn’t dumb and I advised that he doesn’t care if people like him. I also warned waiting until the next election wasn’t an option. There won’t be another free and fair election in Alberta until UCP is removed.

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