You know how there's a 2nd amendment in the U.S. on the right to bear arms? I know that it was originally meant to allow people to form militias and defend their rights should the government become an authoritarian regime and stop following the constitution.

Is there anything similar in Canada in terms of laws or rights and freedoms?

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[–] breezeblock@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don’t think you’ve fully thought through the consequences of what you’re suggesting.

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The user who commented just above me literally just said that governments are creating laws to dictate where and how we can use our freedom of assembly.

And the free speech laws that restrict what constitutes free speech? They're being misused and abused against people protesting against human rights abuses.

Here's an example:

Recently in Québec, during a May day demonstration for workers' rights, a group of people made a scene with a guillotine and papier maché look-alike of the provincial minister of labour. They did a mock execution. This scene outraged the minister and a manhunt was initiated with the police to identify who did this to arrest them and put them in jail.

There has been protests for the protection of land and the environment that have been violently repressed by police. Some of the protesters where even labelled as potential terrorists.

There are also protesters who demand action from the government against Israel and its ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people and its agression against Lebanon that have been met with violent repression for the police as well and have been labelled as anti-semite.

Meanwhile, we had literal neo-nazis, calling for the deportation or death of immigrants in Québec, and more specifically the death of Jewish people and South-Asian people, creating active clubs across the province (which were unmasked and called out by a journalist), and marching with neo-nazi flags and anti-immigration banners in Shawinigan. Yet, not a peep from the government, authorities or law enforcement. These active clubs train for combat and even have shooting ranges where they learn how use and maintain firearms. Literal hate groups with hate speech, inciting people to violence against specific groups of people. And I didn't even talk about groups like diagolon or other far-right and manosphere podcasts.

That worries me. It means fascism is growing and running rampant and is being tolerated while people voicing their concerns over the environment, people's basic needs and basic human rights are being repressed.

Doesn't that worry you?

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The user who commented just above me literally just said that governments are creating laws to dictate where and how we can use our freedom of assembly.

Shooting people is not the only way to express civil disobedience. In fact it's the worst possible thing you can do.

The fact that your immediate answer to "We're being limited in where we can assemble" is to bring a gun rather than just "Hey...let's assemble there anyway and bring the press with us". Says a lot about you.

There's a thousand ways to prove your point and affect change without resorting to guns, and that's how we like it in Canada. The American "Guns as the first and only option in all things" is psychotic.

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca -1 points 5 days ago

You're making A LOT of assumptions about me over this. Chill.