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Brian Lilley is Senior Correspondent for Sun Media on Parliament Hill.
Brian has been covering politics for the last 10 years. Five of those years were spent as Ottawa Bureau Chief. More about Brian here.
Brian Lilley is Senior Correspondent for Sun Media on Parliament Hill.
Brian has been covering politics for the last 10 years. Five of those years were spent as Ottawa Bureau Chief. More about Brian here.
I’ll tell you what this whole revolt of civil servants/police conspiring to usurp the will of parliament has done to me – I no longer trust police to enforce the law equitably, as written, without polical or ideolgical interpretation or spin – I can now see they are politicized and corrupt at the command level and their motives and policies must be suspect.
It is empirical fact that keeping a registry sadly lacking in complete and correct data (a so called backdoor registry) alive would prove absolutely useless as a police tool against crime and offer no value whatsoever to public safety. It was done purely as an act of police revolt against a government rolling back one layer of draconian police powers which was more dangerous than the ill it proposed to cure. This displays another disturbing trend in modern Canadian politics – that probably the largest, most powerful and well funded NGO (political pressure group) in this nation is the police brass. It also demonstrates their comfort in choosing draconic police state solutions over the better good of free society.
The one thing that angers me the most about this open police revolt against parliament is that the ring leaders like Wyatt are not going to be pink slipped or prosecuted for openly defying an act of parliament.