Faisal Bhabha, an associate professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, said Cooley “should be seriously considering a civil action for malicious prosecution and unlawful detention by the police.”
“It appears there never was a basis for the charge to be laid. Any alleged basis was clearly improper and quite likely discriminatory,” Bhabha said. “The laying of the charge would have had a chilling effect on the free exercise of Charter rights in the city and across the country. Therefore, the police should investigate to determine how such an error was made.”
FFS no, were good. Let us deal with our shits ourselves. It’s not like the US absolutism of the 1st amendment and the like is a good example to follow.
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And yet, zero people were hurt by my advocacy.
Canada proves they need stronger free speech protections every time anyone is arrested for “harmful” speech outside of fraud.
FFS no, were good. Let us deal with our shits ourselves. It’s not like the US absolutism of the 1st amendment and the like is a good example to follow.