ALBERTIANS HAVE LOST A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT AND NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT
I’ll admit my last post had a bit of misinformation but since everyone has so much to say about what’s happening in Alberta I’d thought I’d put together a post with the correct information.
Right now Alberta Canada is being run by the United Conservative Party or UCP for short and the current premier is Jason Kenney.
On June 17 the Alberta government passed Bill 1 “Protecting Critical Infastructure.” This Bill was created too “protect[s] essential infrastructure from damage or interference cause by blockades, protests, or similar activities...”
What does this mean? The act defines essential infrastructure as a vast array of things such as pipelines, highways and railways BUT the act also states that it “allows regulations to expand the definition of essential infrastructure in the future if necessary”
Jennifer Koshan, Lisa Silver, and Jonnette Watson Hamilton from the University of Calgary Faculty of Law break down Bill 1 and explain what actually falls under Alberta’s vague list of essential infastructure.
Highways, for instance, are defined as “any thoroughfare, street, road, trail, avenue, parkway, driveway, viaduct, lane, alley, square, bridge, causeway, trestleway or other place or any part of any of them, whether publicly or privately owned, that the public is ordinarily entitled or permitted to use for the passage or parking of vehicles” and include sidewalks, boulevards and adjacent ditches...”
Now, let’s take a look at what is considered interfering with an essential service: “wilfully obstructing, interrupting or interfering with the construction, maintenance, use or operation of any essential infrastructure in ways that make it dangerous, useless, inoperative or ineffective.”
So what does this mean for people in Alberta? Indigenous people and their allies will NOT be able to protest the construction of pipelines on site, and gathering to protest police brutality and marching down roads and sidewalks is now punishable with a fine of up to $10 000 or 6 months in jail for a FIRST offense.
When I say Albertians have lost their basic human rights I mean it! The article I have been referencing goes in depth on exactly how and which rights are being compromised!
“freedom of expression (s 2(b)), freedom of peaceful assembly (s 2(c)), freedom of association (s 2(d)), the right to liberty (s 7) and the right to equality (s 15).”
It’s no secret that Jason Kenney and the UCP introduced Bill 1 to silence the voices of Indigenous peoples, First Nations and anyone else who challenges their government. So what can you do to help give Albertians their voice back?
Rally Against Alberta’s Critical Infastructure Defence Act
Repeal The Critical Infastructure Defence Act
Support Wet’suwet’en in stopping the pipeline (it’s in BC but still so important!)
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Educate yourself with a video
Educate yourself with an article
Keep up too date with the Alberta Union of Provinvial Employees as they launch a constitutional challenge against Bill 1
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