Tue Mar 28, 2023 – 4:27 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) –– Top constitutional lawyer John Carpay has blasted Calgary City Council for going to “war” against Canadians’ freedoms by using bylaws to target people’s ability to protest events at public facilities, including drag queen performance directed at children.
In an opinion piece published on March 17 in the Western Standard, Carpay, who is the president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, said “freedom of expression is meaningless if citizens are only allowed to say what’s approved by the government, or if expression is banished from public spaces.”
There already exists laws to “prevent people from obstructing property,” wrote Carpay, noting that “When municipal politicians pass bylaws against behavior that is already criminal, they are merely virtue-signaling.”
In June 2022, Calgary City Council, under its left-leaning Mayor Jyoti Gondek, amended the city’s bylaws to “specifically prohibit insulting or demeaning behavior, including unwanted sexual advances, or harassing anyone on the basis of age, race, sexual orientation, disability, gender, gender identity or gender expression, among others.”
About a month ago, Gondek vowed to use the bylaw to go after drag queen story hour protesters after some of the events were postponed
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