Boundaries Commission Rejects Liberal MP's Objections, New Federal Laws, Book Preview Announcement
To start the podcast, I give a preview of my forthcoming book of legal and political philosophy, "The Post-Atheist 21st Century - An Evolution in Democratic Governance and Personal Meaning", which will be available in the coming week on Amazon. It is aimed at intelligent and curious regular (that is, non-academic) readers, and attempts to describe a trend in governing ideology that is free from ideologies. It then talks about how to live while understanding that our existence is temporary, and there is no foundational ideology. This is a different project than people may be used to seeing from me, but also takes many of the same approaches to explaining complex ideas in a way that can be more easily digested. Now, back to the regular Rodgers Brief content ... In what should be an embarrassing turn of events for the Liberal Government, the Nova Scotia Federal Boundaries Commission has emphatically rejected suggestions from three NS Liberal MP's who sought to interfere with the independent setting of riding boundary lines. Starting just after the 10:30 mark of this video, I review the 25 page decision from the Commission, which systematically and thoroughly addressed each argument put forth by MP's Jaime Battiste, Lena Diab, and Minister Sean Fraser. The PROC parliamentary committee, chaired and dominated by Liberal MP's, had voted in favour of their colleagues' objections, which meant the Commission had to take a second look at their own work in light of those objections. The Commission, chaired by Court of Appeal Justice Cindy Bourgeois, was particularly critical of Mr. Battiste, using phrases like "fundamental misunderstanding on his part", "his failure", "questionable relevance", and "simply incorrect". They also note his reference to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, which was passed by the Federal gov't, and that this legislation contemplated an implementation plan being in place within two years. They point out that we are beyond two years, and there is no such plan in place, and certainly nothing that addresses electoral boundaries. I also discuss C-11, the controversial online streaming legislation, as well as new justice legislation aimed at providing a means for lifting publication bans and also changing the way the sex offender registry operates. Finally, I talk about this week's released caselaw from the Courts of Nova Scotia, with some emphasis on a cocaine sentencing case which demonstrates how careless criminals can be in the course of their work.
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