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Book Journal of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada

Download or read book Journal of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journals   House of Commons  Ottawa  Canada

Download or read book Journals House of Commons Ottawa Canada written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pepper in Our Eyes

Download or read book Pepper in Our Eyes written by W. Wesley Pue and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2000-04-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN" meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org" In November 1997, the world media converged on Vancouver to cover the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. The major news story that emerged, however, had little to do with the crisis unfolding in the Asian economies. At the UBC campus, where the APEC leaders' meeting was held, a predictable student protest met with an unusually strong police response. A crowd of students was pepper-sprayed, along with a CBC cameraman. The dramatic video footage of the incident that appeared on the evening news shocked Canadians. The use of noxious chemicals to attack non-violent protesters somehow seemed un-Canadian. It looked more like something that police and soldiers in less democratic countries would do. Other news stories developed. Two dozen law professors wrote to Prime Minister Chrétien to report that a number of serious constitutional violations that had taken place on campus. One protester, held for fourteen hours for displaying a sign saying "Free Speech," initiated legal proceedings. Other lawsuits followed. The RCMP and the government of Canada were named as defendants, and a public inquiry was launched. A central issue was whether the Prime Minister's officials gave orders of a political nature to the police that resulted in law-abiding citizens being assaulted and arrested. But why all the fuss? So what if the Prime Minister gave orders to the police? The contributors to Pepper in Our Eyes maintain that the "so what" question is of vital importance. The events at APEC raised serious questions about constitutional principle, the role of police in a democratic society, public accountability, and the effects of globalization on rights and politics. The contributors, experts in a variety of fields, draw upon their knowledge to explain -- in plain English -- the background issues and the values at stake. Some of the authors, such as Gerald Morin, chair of the first RCMP Public Complaints Commission, and CBC journalist Terry Milewski, had a direct connection with the APEC affair. By getting at the fundamental issues behind the APEC affair, Pepper in Our Eyes seeks to raise our civic consciousness. It shows that there was much more at stake that day than the questionable use of pepper spray. The Hughes Report Special Feature Selected as a BC Book for Everybody

Book Police Powers in Canada

    Book Details:
  • Author : University of Alberta. Centre for Constitutional Studies
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802073624
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Police Powers in Canada written by University of Alberta. Centre for Constitutional Studies and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The television spectacles of Oka and the Rodney King affair served to focus public disaffection with the police, a disaffection that has been growing for several years. In Canada, confidence in the police is at an all-time low. At the same time crime rates continue to rise. Canada now has the dubious distinction of having the second highest crime rate in the Western world. How did this state of affairs come about? What do we want from our police? How do we achieve policing that is consistent with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? The essays in this volume set out to explore these questions. In their introduction, the editors point out that constitutional order is tied to the exercise of power by law enforcement agencies, and that if relations between the police and civil society continue to erode, the exercise of force will rise - a dangerous prospect for democratic societies.

Book Atomic Energy Legislation

Download or read book Atomic Energy Legislation written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Minutes of proceedings and evidence of the Legislative Committee on Bill C 126

Download or read book Minutes of proceedings and evidence of the Legislative Committee on Bill C 126 written by Canada. Parlement. Chambre des communes. Comite legislatif sur le projet de loi C-126 and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: