Category: civil liberties

GOP Lawmaker Urges Architects of Digital Dollar to Consider Risks to Civil Liberties

March 26, 2021
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As central banks, including the Federal Reserve, are looking into implementing their own digital currencies, a Republican lawmaker warned of a key risk associated with their adoption, namely whether they could be exploited to curb civil liberties. Nations across the world are mulling developing central bank digital currencies (CBDC) to modernize their financial systems, ward…

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Definition of ‘Hate Speech’ in New Liberal Bill Could See Revival of Controversial Law

March 10, 2021
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The statutory definition of hate contained in Canada’s new hate speech legislation soon to be tabled by the federal government could revive a controversial law previously repealed for infringing on rights.  Repealed in 2013, Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act had made it an act of discrimination to communicate anything online or by…

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Legal Challenges to Pandemic Measures on the Rise as Civil Liberties Groups Cry Foul

March 3, 2021
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The constitutional rights and freedoms of Canadians are front and centre in a flurry of legal challenges to pandemic measures, as civil liberties groups take on multiple cases they say represent unconstitutional measures implemented by authorities. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) has court actions underway or pending, as of Feb. 25, against five provinces…

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The ‘Good American’

January 12, 2021
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Commentary In my last column, I described how I have come to better understand the moral problem of the “‘good German,’ the term used to describe the average, presumably decent German, who did nothing to hurt Jews but also did nothing to help them and did nothing to undermine the Nazi regime.” Watching America accept…

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