Oh Premier Johnny! You Have Been Learning From Stevie Spiteful & Vic ‘Lock ‘em Up’ Toews, Haven’t You? Plus, Mask-uh-raid Fun

Section 17, which says that organizers, or even a student association taking part in the march without being its organizer, must make sure that the event complies with the parameters handed to police.

Say what?  Often demonstrators on marches choose to go elsewhere? What are the others supposed to do, billy-club them to file in line and follow?  What happens to people who drop out and decide they simply want to go home? If there is a group dropping out of the march, headed in the same direction, like say, a metro station, what will happen?  After all, especially if there are more than 10 of ‘em headed to the metro,  that can be construed as a riot gone wrong.

Here’s what the Bar had to say about that:

“The government is making it harder for people to organize spontaneous demonstrations. It is a limit on freedom of speech,” Mr. Masson said.

Demonstrations are more often than not, impromptu acts, often in reaction to something that happened. An example would be the anti-police march that took place right after we heard that the SPVM turned St-Denis Street into the OK Corral during morning rush hour, shooting and killing homeless man, Mario Hamel and commuter headed to work, Patrick Limoges.  Remember how Patrick Limoges’s co-workers from the hospital he worked at all got together that day for an impromptu memorial. I guess that would be a now be a no-no, too, according to Bill 78.  Also, double whammy, they were well over 10 people.

Section 13 and 14 say that no one can “directly or indirectly contribute” to delaying classes or denying access to them.

I guess this means the professor can’t call in sick and cancel classes, that is, how Bill 78 is written.  And especially, no group of employees can even go on strike, now! That’s probably intentional. There is, after all, a war on unionized labour.

Section 15 says student associations must employ “appropriate means” to induce their members to not directly or indirectly disrupt classes.

What? Define “appropriate means” Offer them a pony if they behave like good little boys ‘n’ girls? Or somehow blackmail them? Beat the crap outta them? What?

Section 25 threatens fines of up to $125,000 to groups that contravene the bill.

Holy crap! Got that, boys ‘n’ girls? Make sure you inform the SPVM if you have a gathering of more than 10 people, make sure your professors and other staff are healthy or not having any labour disputes, and above all, remember you are now your brother/sister’s keeper and make sure they behave, or you’ll all get fined.

Hell, even penal law specialist, Fannie Lafontaine from Universite de Laval doesn’t quite understand this:

“The students are told to take `appropriate means’ and we don’t know what this implies, to `induce’ members to comply, so there’s an obligation to get results . . . this doesn’t work in law. You can’t have offences that are written so vaguely they’re impossible to respect,” she said.

Sound familiar? It should. These sound an awful lot like them Dumb on Crime bills the Harpercons come out with.

The good Professor, again:

“In times of crisis, all governments tend to restrain fundamental rights and history shows that excessive restrictions don’t help restore order,” Prof. Lafontaine said.

No, it won’t. In fact, Premier Johnny-Boy is probably further fuelling the fire here. But, perhaps that is his goal to further stoke populist anger, in the hopes that this will distract the masses from the pending Charbonneau Commission’s inquiry into Construction scandals and all the arrests happening under Operation Marteau. However, he’ll have to fight for that dishonour with Francois Legault, who appears to be resurrecting the ghost of Maurice Duplessis. Let the games begin!

I really can’t blame former Education minion, Line Beauchamp for stepping down. I wouldn’t want anymore of this neither.

As for that anti-mask private members bill from the Harpercon, Blake Richards, where anyone wearing a mask could get up to 10 years in one of ol’ Vic & Stevie’s megaprisons.  Well, Kelly McParland does echo my questions on this one, for openers, what is the defintion of a mask according to this bill?

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