A rebuttal to a rebuttal on the Harper government terrorism bill – Manitoulin Expositor
Apr 8, 2015
I guess we should be grateful for Mr. Brad Middleton’s incisive views (‘A Conservative rebuttal to Chicken-Catch-A-Tory,’ Page 5) on the Canadian political scene in the April 1 (appropriate) edition of the Expositor.
Just to correct a small misconception. Yes, we have had one (count ‘em, one) what could rightly be called terrorist attack on Canadian soil. The other attack on a soldier, in Quebec, was characterized as the action of a random mentally disturbed individual by both the RCMP and the Minister of Justice.
So on the basis of a single sort-of terrorist attack, the Harper regime is turning our entire legislative system upside down and rushing through draconian laws that can have no better effect than to inconvenience millions of Canadians, and at worst will give to the Harper regime the powers to persecute protesters, both aboriginal and non-aboriginal, and to arrest and confine without charges anyone seen as an enemy of the state, whether real or illusory or just plain concocted, and to spy on any one of us at any time.
