Sunday, January 31, 2021

Parliament Hill is being taken away from the People of Canada.

"Commons board recommending 733M plan to build Parliament Hill visitors centre." CBC News, June 18, 2020. Land is also being removed for a Light Rail Transit project.

 House of Commons Debates Ottawa April 22, 1985. Freedom of Assembly on Parliament Hill; removal of the Peace Camp.

MP Mike Cassidy (Ottawa Centre)New Democatic Party: "Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister of Public Works. It is with regard to the forcible eviction of four of my constituents from the lawns of Parliament Hill this morning."

MP Ian Gardiner Waddell, New Democratic Party: "Can you believe it? They are happy."

MP Mike Cassidy: "I represent those people and I am proud of the protest that they have been making in favour of peace on behalf of the people of Canada...Is the Minister aware that the eviction of the Peace Camp has received widespread publicity across Canada, and now across the world, and that the message that is being conveyed around the world is that the Government of Canada opposes the views of those Canadians who stand for peace. Why did the Government allow that kind of message to be spread across the world when the alternative would have been to allow those demonstrators to continue their efforts to bring peace into the world and to bring the issue to all Canadians?"

House of Commons Debates Ottawa May 2, 1985. "If a peace officer who may be acting under the direction of the Minister of Public Works says that the person is "occupying" and therefore violating the new revised nuisance regulation, that individual can be asked to move. If that person refuses to move, he or she can in fact be arrested and removed from Parliament Hill."

"Their personal property can be removed from Parliament Hill and they can be subject to a fine of $400 dollars...I believe that constitutes very arbitrary police power to interfere with the time honoured right of persons to in fact demonstrate on Parliament Hill. Joseph Maingot in Parliamentary Privilege in Canada refers to the fact that it is not the precinct of Parliament that is sacred but the function."

"I suggest that because there have not been restrictions on public access to Parliament Hill, apart from Criminal Code restrictions and reasonable arrangements made with the RCMP, something new has been injected which is potentially of grave concern. It could be used to stop all demonstrations on Parliament Hill."

Parliamentary Privilege in Canada by Joseph Maingot. 

Her Majesty the Queen and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau signed the Constitution Act of 1982 on Parliament Hill.

Constitution Act of 1982, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Guarantee of Rights and Freedoms.

Fundamental Freedoms. Section 2.) Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:

a.) freedom of conscience and religion; b.) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression including freedom of the press and other media of communication;  c.) freedom of peaceful assembly; and d.) freedom of association.

I believe that the public will eventually be banned from the House of Commons and Parliament Hill, our seat of democracy. savecfbrockcliffe. House of Commons Debates are going to be virtual from now on and televised after they have been heavily censored. 

More Crown assets that Canadians are losing, in my opinion: More Dominion Buildings.  Northern half of the Sparks Street Mall.  Commissioners Park--- The only people who can attend the Tulip Festival in 2021 are local residents---the rest of us can "enjoy" the event on our computer screens.

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