Wed Dec 7, 2022 – 6:50 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MPs have blasted a new Liberal Party bill that seeks to give national park wardens the authority to conduct searches in “any place” without a warrant, as wholly unconstitutional.
CPC MP Marilyn Gladu said recently in the House of Commons that Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault’s Bill C-23 is “contrary to section eight of the Charter.”
Section eight of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms says “everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.”
Another CPC MP Damien Kurek said the new bill gives the government more “expansive powers.”
“Forgive me for being a little hesitant to grant powers and wide-reaching and expansive powers to the minister, in this case the Minister of the Environment who has not necessarily demonstrated that he can be trusted to ensure that those powers will be respected,” noted Kurek.
According to a breakdown of Bill C-23 – officially titled An Act Respecting Places, Persons And Events Of National Historic Significance – by Blacklock’s Reporter, the proposed law contains an ambiguous clause that states park wardens can “enter on and pass through or over private property without being liable for doing so and
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