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Are you talking about the militant separatists who had already committed mailbombings and escalated to assasinating a government official and kidnapping a forei
by catgary 2y ago
Are you talking about the militant separatists who had already committed mailbombings and escalated to assasinating a government official and kidnapping a foreign diplomat on Canadian soil in 1970?
It’s also important to note that afterwards Quebec separatism continued to be a legitimate political movement without a terrorist wing, with parties represented in federal and provincial governments.
- mardifoufs 2y ago[flagged]
- GamerUncle 2y ago[flagged]
- idiotsecant 2y agoYou think the US has not been doing exactly the same thing? What do you think the patriot act was? There are a million examples of this.
- mardifoufs 2y agoThe Patriot act doesn't even come close to emergency powers. And the Patriot act would've been insanely worse if the US had the equivalent of our non withstanding clause. So no, it hasn't been doing the same. Bush and his cronies sure would've wanted to go further though, I agree. Also, another difference is that the Patriot act has been very controversial in the years since. Whereas the same hasn't been true in Canada for the usage of emergency power. And no one seems to care that we see more and more laws passed with the non-withstanding clause either.
- wbl 2y agoThere was a literal British army deployment to Northern Ireland for decades.