{"id":9664,"date":"2019-01-27T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=9664"},"modified":"2019-03-05T12:58:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T17:58:30","slug":"the-danielle-metz-show-045-the-impending-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/9664","title":{"rendered":"DMS 045 – The impending police state"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Being required to \u2018prove a negative\u2019 perhaps defines one of the fundamental roots of injustice (to say nothing of irrationality), and yet, that is what Canada\u2019s latest round of \u2018drunk driving\u2019 laws (under Canada\u2019s Bill C-46<\/strong>) actually does.<\/p>\n

Under the new \u2018drunk driving\u2019 laws, those caught over the \u2018legal limit\u2019 any time within two hours after having last driven a motor vehicle, can now be required to \u2018prove\u2019 their sobriety when they last drove. Being over the legal alcohol limit any time within two hours after having last driven is now considered an impaired driving offense, even though not driving at the time. <\/p>\n

And when a sober Mississauga driver returned what was deemed to be an \u2018excessive\u2019 number of bottles for recycling at his Beer Store, he found himself forced to take a breathalyzer to prove his sobriety. <\/p>\n

Given an absence of \u2018probable cause\u2019 and the requirement of reverse onus,<\/strong> in their assessment of this situation Danielle and Robert entertain the possibility of an encroaching \u2018police state.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

The precedent for arbitrary detention was already established in Canada, allowing for random alcohol checks conducted under the \u2018Ride Program.\u2019 Even when the Ride Program was first introduced, many were already warning of a pending \u2018police state,\u2019 though the legislation was justified by the courts in a narrow decision that argued ‘public security and safety.’<\/p>\n

Already on shaky grounds, that argument would be a long stretch if applied to the current legal dilemma. Many legal experts are already predicting that it will not stand a test in court. Let\u2019s hope so. Because when the law requires citizens to \u2018prove a negative,\u2019 there\u2019s simply no way that such a law can ever be Just or Right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being required to \u2018prove a negative\u2019 perhaps defines one of the fundamental roots of injustice (to say nothing of irrationality), and yet, that is what Canada\u2019s latest round of \u2018drunk driving\u2019 laws (under Canada\u2019s Bill C-46) actually does. Under the new \u2018drunk driving\u2019 laws, those caught over the \u2018legal limit\u2019 any time within two hours [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[605,28,205,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-society","category-latest","category-law","category-society","issues-drinking-and-driving","issues-reverse-onus-on-proof","category-605-id","category-28-id","category-205-id","category-598-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9664"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9811,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions\/9811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}