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[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Corporations continue to infringe on our rights and freedoms every day and get away with it with a slap on the wrist or a fine, so of course canadians wouldn't bother to memorize this I hardly blame them given how absolutely and thoroughly inept our regulatory bodies and politicians are.

[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Which parts of the Charter are corporations continuing to infringe on?

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They can't do so directly, of course, because it doesn't apply to them. They can be an indirect factor in that privatizing anything that was formerly a government responsibility takes it out from under the protection of the Charter (and corporations will certainly push for privatization if they feel it's worth their while). They can also clog the courts required for the Enforcement section of the Charter with unrelated cases, although I don't know if this is a significant cause of legislative backlog at the moment.

(I'm just polaying devil's advocate, of course—the person you're responding to likely doesn't realize what rights are specifically in the Charter and was too lazy to look it up, even though the full text is on-line and it isn't a very long document.)

[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Doubly ironic that the specific topic of this post is that many people don't know what is included in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.