ONTARIO LAW CHANGED 4 1/2 YEARS AFTER OUTRAGEOUS POLICE ABUSES

Last Friday's Waterloo Region Record carried this story "Ontario replaces G20 secret law with bill to protect courts, power plants". The G20 "secret law" allegedly permitted unconstitutional police tactics such as the "kettling" of hundreds of honest citizens in Toronto four and a half years ago. That was and will remain a stain on both Toronto and Canada for a very long time. This new law replaces a Second World War law that was designed to protect important infrastructure during a time of war from saboteurs. The Police misrepresented it and abused its' intent for their own purposes at the G20 Summit in Toronto.

The new law is designed to specifically protect nuclear power plants, electrical generating stations and courthouses. The provincial NDP have some problems with it regarding the possibility of cars transporting persons to courthouses being subject to searching without probable cause. This would be a reduction in citizens current civil rights. All in all both the province and the police handled themselves very badly at and before the G20 Summit and further scrutiny is an absolute must to preserve citizens freedom from governmental tyranny.