That’s fair. I inferred a smug tone from it but text is a hard medium to convey or receive tone.
What I thought I recognized in your comment was an attitude I’ve participated in for at least a decade. Oh, I’m so smart, I’ll make some quip here to show that I’m way ahead of the curve here and you lot are just catching up. Look at me here on the sidelines, I’m so cool unlike you naive suckers trying to make a difference.
But I don’t know that was your attitude. If it helps, consider that I was speaking to my past self and not you.
Can you elaborate? I’ll admit I was living abroad during the Harper years, and I’m unfamiliar with any pledges to override our charter rights before. My understanding is that this type of open commitment to take away our rights is entirely new behaviour at the federal level.
The difference between “I don’t like their policy” and “these people will use section 33 to negate our fundamental rights” is a significant difference to me.
Harper worked to erode a lot of rights. You are correct that they never said it this openly, but a lot of their “tough on crime” or “anti-terroism” type policies always sought to limit freedoms and rights.
Conservatives have also been trying to repeal things like Marijuana legalization and gay marriage. One of Harper’s slogans was “you won’t recognize Canada when I’m done”.
One of the things that stands out that wasn’t even near the worst that they did; was the “barbaric practices hotline”. Which was meant to harras muslim and other non christians (or non whites but that was never proven IIRC).
Yeah, they’ve been attacking our rights and freedoms for decades.
That’s fair. I inferred a smug tone from it but text is a hard medium to convey or receive tone.
What I thought I recognized in your comment was an attitude I’ve participated in for at least a decade. Oh, I’m so smart, I’ll make some quip here to show that I’m way ahead of the curve here and you lot are just catching up. Look at me here on the sidelines, I’m so cool unlike you naive suckers trying to make a difference.
But I don’t know that was your attitude. If it helps, consider that I was speaking to my past self and not you.
My comment was a mark born of confusion because if you have been paying attention he has been attacking our rights since he was Harper’s yap dog.
Can you elaborate? I’ll admit I was living abroad during the Harper years, and I’m unfamiliar with any pledges to override our charter rights before. My understanding is that this type of open commitment to take away our rights is entirely new behaviour at the federal level.
The difference between “I don’t like their policy” and “these people will use section 33 to negate our fundamental rights” is a significant difference to me.
Harper worked to erode a lot of rights. You are correct that they never said it this openly, but a lot of their “tough on crime” or “anti-terroism” type policies always sought to limit freedoms and rights.
Conservatives have also been trying to repeal things like Marijuana legalization and gay marriage. One of Harper’s slogans was “you won’t recognize Canada when I’m done”.
One of the things that stands out that wasn’t even near the worst that they did; was the “barbaric practices hotline”. Which was meant to harras muslim and other non christians (or non whites but that was never proven IIRC).
Yeah, they’ve been attacking our rights and freedoms for decades.