Mon Feb 21, 2022 – 1:18 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — On today’s episode of The John-Henry Westen Show, I speak with Brian Peckford, former premier of Newfoundland and last living co-author of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
We discuss the current erosion of the Charter and of Canadian democracy in general, a process only accelerated by Justin Trudeau’s decision to pick a fight with the Freedom Convoy truckers and their supporters.
“My central message to people right now is that as we speak, our democracy is in decline, is in grave danger of that becoming a permanent condition,” Peckford said. “And that is because all 14 governments of Canada, the 10 provinces, the three territories, and the federal government have all enacted measures which violate the provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, especially provision number two, which is freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom of press, freedom of assembly, freedom of association.”
Peckford made the salient point that the United States has an entirely different experience with civil liberties than Canada. The U.S. has had the Bill of Rights enshrined in its Constitution since 1791,
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