There’s a persistent illusion we live with:

that rights, once written down, stay.

History suggests the opposite.

They hold only as long as people remember what it took to create them, and what it costs to keep them.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/episode-2-voices-of-revolution-teaching?r=6l8ed8

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This is wrong on every possible level. We've deceived ourselves into thinking we can stay immune from US dumbduckery but they're trying to break down our rights & freedoms too, and our government wants to let them!! For shame Carney and anyone else who went along with this!

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Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/canadas-bill-c-2-opens-floodgates-us-surveillance

Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance

The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borders Act, is a sprawling surveillance bill with multiple privacy-invasive provisions. But the thrust...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
URGENT: Protect the Charter of Rights & Freedoms from Poilievre's Attack

Don’t let one man decide which rights Canadians keep. Stand up for our freedoms—before they’re gone.

Joint Statement on the dangers of the May 2024 Council of the EU compromise proposal on EU CSAM

TChild sexual abuse and its distribution online is a serious crime that can only be effectively addressed if EU member states take a measured approach that is informed by expert evidence. The EU Parliament has already done this by adopting language that excludes end-to-end encrypted services from the scope of the regulation. We praise this step towards recognizing the importance of encryption in ensuring security and guaranteeing human rights and fundamental freedoms. We welcome this positive approach from the EU Parliament, as end-to-end encryption is a vital technology that protects adults, children, businesses, and governments from becoming victims of malicious actors. We are concerned that the Council of the EU is not following the same path. The Belgian Presidency continues to advocate using scanning technologies for encrypted messaging services. Content detection has been a contentious issue for several EU member states, who have until now opposed client-side scanning technologies because they rightly understand that they create serious security and privacy risks, permit general monitoring, and undermine human rights. Join the Steering Global Encryption Coalition Steering Committee (The Center for Democracy & Technology, Global Partners Digital, the Internet Freedom Foundation, the Internet Society, and Mozilla), in calling on Ministers in the Council of the EU to reject all scanning proposals that are inconsistent with the principle of end-to-end encryption, including client-side scanning and upload moderation.

Pierre Poilievre and the end of guaranteed rights and freedoms

The Conservative leader signals that he’s willing to go down a dangerous path by promising to use the notwithstanding clause to suspend fundamental rights

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One way to be convicted of multiple felony crimes - and keep doing business while avoiding prison - is to incorporate. Corporations are people, but with far more rights. https://www.reuters.com/world/donald-trumps-company-be-sentenced-15-year-tax-fraud-2023-01-13/ #CorporateWelfare #RightsAndFreedoms
Donald Trump's company sentenced to pay $1.61 mln penalty for tax fraud

A New York judge on Friday sentenced Donald Trump's namesake real estate company to pay a $1.61 million criminal penalty after it was convicted of scheming to defraud tax authorities for 15 years.

Reuters

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