shockedcanadian
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This is a good step and I applaud Ontario judges who had the courage and fortitude to stand up to this law. G-d bless these men.
It's time for the West to start practicing what we preach because I can tell you, we are losing the information war and it is our own governments doing. Unfathomable considering where the West was relative to nations such as Russia and China only a generation ago.
Here is a promise, if we don't roll back the overreach across governments, the East is going to have that much of an easier path to recruitment of spies, stakeholders and influencers in our orbit. A citizens human rights are granted by G-d and the state must protect this.
www.thestar.com
The law allowing Canadian border officers to search people’s personal devices is unconstitutional, Ontario’s top court has ruled, giving Parliament six months to come up with new legislation.
The Ontario Court of Appeal said in a 114-page decision released Friday that there’s a need for a higher threshold justifying a search of travellers’ phones, tablets and laptops, after concluding the current law violates the right to be free from unreasonable searches guaranteed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
“Because the border is not a Charter-free zone, it is also not an almost-anything-goes zone for highly intrusive searches like digital device examinations,” wrote Chief Justice Michael Tulloch on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel that included Justices Jonathon George and Patrick Monahan.
It's time for the West to start practicing what we preach because I can tell you, we are losing the information war and it is our own governments doing. Unfathomable considering where the West was relative to nations such as Russia and China only a generation ago.
Here is a promise, if we don't roll back the overreach across governments, the East is going to have that much of an easier path to recruitment of spies, stakeholders and influencers in our orbit. A citizens human rights are granted by G-d and the state must protect this.
Appeal court strikes down law on searching phones, tablets and laptops at border
“Because the border is not a Charter-free zone, it is also not an almost-anything-goes zone,” wrote Chief Justice Michael Tulloch in a 114-page decision released Friday.
www.thestar.com
The law allowing Canadian border officers to search people’s personal devices is unconstitutional, Ontario’s top court has ruled, giving Parliament six months to come up with new legislation.
The Ontario Court of Appeal said in a 114-page decision released Friday that there’s a need for a higher threshold justifying a search of travellers’ phones, tablets and laptops, after concluding the current law violates the right to be free from unreasonable searches guaranteed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
“Because the border is not a Charter-free zone, it is also not an almost-anything-goes zone for highly intrusive searches like digital device examinations,” wrote Chief Justice Michael Tulloch on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel that included Justices Jonathon George and Patrick Monahan.
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