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woken up by the telephone. His criminals over that of honest dose of anti-gun hysteria and
neighbour was calling to tell him
there were some prowlers in the
area.
citizens like Lawrence and his
neighbour.
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I came across a link to a document in Google Docs * Read a summary of CCLAs position
that horrified me. And then I found the National * Read CCLAs factum
Post story that confirmed it.
Its the ruling that forces Ezra Levant to pay a
government censor $25,000 in damages for, as one Warman v. Lemire, Federal Court of Canada
blogger called it, the offense of criticizing a censor.
Giacomo Vigna is a lawyer for the Canadian This case concerns the constitutionality of the
Human Rights Commission. hate speech provisions in the Canadian Human
If you are interested, you can read more about our Rights Act. In a ruling released in September 2009,
official censors and their lack of humor here. the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal found that the
Acts hate speech sections were unconstitutional,
and refused to apply the provisions. That decision is
HUNTERS BEWARE!!! now being judicially reviewed in the Federal Court.
This is from the November 26th edition of the * Read CCLAs factum
Ottawa Sun:
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R. v. Gomboc, 2010 SCC 55 The central issue in this case is thus whether the DRA
discloses intimate details of the lifestyle and personal
The Supreme Court released a decision in the choices of the individual that form part of the biographi-
Gomboc case on Wednesday that affects your right cal core data protected by the Charters guarantee of
to privacy and your right to be free of unreasonable informational privacy. The evidence available on the
search and seizure. record offers no foundation for concluding that the
information disclosed by the utility company yielded
Brian Bowman, on his blog BrianBowman.ca, any useful information at all about household activities
writes about privacy issues, access to information of an intimate or private nature that form part of the
and other cutting edge legal issues. He writes: inhabitants biographical core data. [..] Instead, the
DRA data merely yield an additional piece of informa-
The police had asked a local utility company to tion to evaluate suspicions based on an independent
attach a digital recording ammeter (DRA) to the evidentiary foundation police already have about a
electric meter on a home in order to monitor electri- particular activity taking place in the home.
cal usage. The data gleaned from the DRA and from A final factor affecting the informational privacy
other sources was then used to obtain a warrant to analysis is the fact that Gs interest in the electricity
search the home. use data was not exclusive. Gs electricity consump-
The search resulted in exposing a marijuana grow tion history was not confidential or private information
op. The defence argued that the installation of the which he had entrusted to the utility company. As the
DRA infringed the privacy rights of the accused to supplier of electricity, the utility company had a legiti-
be secure against unreasonable search contained in mate interest of its own in the quantity of electricity its
Canadas Charter of Rights and Freedoms. customers consumed. Consequently, it is beyond dispute
A critical factual consideration, on which much of that the utility company was within its rights to install
the disagreement in the case turned, was the degree a DRA on a customers line on its own initiative to
to which the use of DRA technology reveals private measure the electricity being consumed.
information. The SCC ultimately decided that DRA While a territorial privacy interest involving the home
technology merely indicates electricity use, not what is a relevant aspect of the totality of the circumstances
the electricity was used for, so it was a reasonable informing the reasonable expectation of privacy deter-
loss of privacy. [emphasis mine] mination, the Charters protection of territorial privacy
Heres an excerpt from the decision: in the home is not absolute.