It is truly mind-numbing to learn that Rebel's newest utterly talentless hack, Katherine Krozonouski, is quite possibly either dumber or more dishonest than Sheila Gunn Reid, as she and equivalently worthless yob Andrew Chapados hork up the following stupidity:
So the two of those dimbulbs are quite sure that the right to worship in any way one wants without restrictions of any kind is "part of our Charter," are they? Hey, I know, let's do something massively radical and unexpected and read the very first paragraph of said Charter, shall we?
wherein even the dumbest among us will notice that all of our vaunted rights and freedoms are, in fact, conditional, and are "subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
Now, I have to ask, what part of that confuses anyone? What part of that does not make it clear that all of our guaranteed rights and freedoms must still be weighed against extenuating circumstances that might require temporary curtailing of some of those rights ... extenuating circumstances such as, oh, I don't know, a global fucking pandemic, which might encourage setting limits on mass gatherings so that, oh, I don't know, people don't get sick and die!!
It is truly incomprehensible that any sentient object is incapable of reading that single sentence and not understand what it means but, hey, these are Rebel News dingbats we're talking about so, maybe not so surprising after all.
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"I've always been nature"????
Does anyone else find it funny that Ezra is constantly bragging about all the brilliant litigators he has working on his "Fight the Fines" campaign, and how successful they are, and yet not one of them seems capable of understanding that single sentence?
Most Canadian hard right wingers, even if they manage to SAY "Charter of Rights", fundamentally think they're Americans. Somewhere in their heads they're not really thinking of a bad right wing interpretation of the Canadian Charter of Rights, they're thinking of a bad right wing interpretation of the American Constitution. They think they have the right to arm bears, too, for instance.
I think if a full-voice Baptist choir elected to practice their constitutionally protected "right to worship as they see fit" outside Ezra's bedroom window at 3:00 am, or at rush hour in the middle of the Don Valley Parkway, the notion of legal limits on constitutional rights might become a bit clearer.
I would agree that it's laughably stupid, and on the surface it is. (So, absolutely mock these fools for being fools)
However, just below the surface stupidity is a much more worrisome pattern. Where the Rebel spouts this stuff and it's pretty obvious that they're just being stupid, we have far right politicians and political lobby groups who are actually trying to create a hierarchy of rights structure where their religion is at the top of the pyramid.
Consider legislators like Dan Williams (AB - Bill 207, Conscience Rights), the 2/3 of the CPC caucus that voted against banning conversion therapy, the JCCF (who I'm pretty sure wrote Bill 207 for Williams), etc. Every last time these orgs pop up, the argument is essentially the same: "any restriction on my religious rights is unreasonable". They actually believe this shit, too - they'll look at you with a straight face and tell you that their faith is _THAT_ important.
So, while the Rebel is saying these things and being utterly daft about it, there's actually a bunch of people around who are completely serious in their efforts to create a hierarchy of rights.
Well, at least the folks advocating Sharia Law in Canada will be happy to hear that Ezra finally supports them.
"Liars or imbeciles?"
Why choose?
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