Former public safety minister Marco Mendicino is advocating for “protective zones” around constituency offices to shield members of Parliament and their staff from “threatening behaviour”. This is an issue we’ll have to watch closely since similar calls for protective zones don’t necessarily square with Canada being a democracy. What do our followers think?
Check out the other stories we’ve been following this week:
- Supreme Court rules governments cannot shield themselves from lawsuits
- Quebec court rules against Concordia University’s attempt to pause faculty strike
- Quebec court orders hospital to keep woman on life support so she can say goodbye to family
- No plan to kill, accused in Coutts murder conspiracy trial denies plot
- Manitoba Metis president ticketed for fishing without a licence
- Another lower court ruling by Supreme Court’s Obonsawin shot down by appeals judges
- Supreme Court won’t disclose mysterious donor behind expensive gift for chief justice
- Recent enforcement sweep leads to 100 arrests in Saskatoon
- Edmonton police commission implements changes to public comment policy
- Montreal law students get two convictions returned to court
- Quebec doctors are abandoning the public system in record numbers
- Alberta and B.C. reach deal ending ban on direct-to-customer sales at B.C. wineries
- Charter Right In Traffic Court
