Buried on page 300 of the government’s omnibus budget implementation bill is an extremely troubling clause regarding corporate power in Canada—one that allows all cabinet ministers to exempt any individual or corporation from any federal Canadian law they are responsible for (with the exception of the Criminal Code). These exemptions just have to be justified…
  • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I really like our PM and he brought Canada a lot of respect yesterday in his speech in Davos.

    But it’s shit like this (and Bill C-2) that piss me off to no end. There is no reason for corps to legally be able to avoid laws that everyone else in Canada has to obey, same as there’s zero reason to give CBSA any more power than they already have. I mean they don’t even have to report how many people they have in custody or how many have died in custody.

    It’s crap like this that doesn’t mesh with his talk of honesty and truth, and the scent of hypocrisy is starting to get strong.