Exercise Your Flipping-The-Bird Rights
“Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, Charter-enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian. It may not be civil, it may not be polite, it may not be gentlemanly. Nevertheless, it does not trigger criminal liability.”
Quebec Justice Dennis Galiatsatos
This is great.
Justice Galiatsatos quote came up in reference to the young boy on a school bus who flipped the bird at some Ottawa Police Service officers. The officers entered the bus and threatened to put the boy in their cruiser then complained about the elementary school student to his principal.
This is, of course, ridiculously stupid behaviour on the part of the police.
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That said, the good justice’s quote absolutely fractured your agent. Sorry I’m not a lawyer so I didn’t know that flipping the bird is a god-given right under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Bless you justice.
Given this ruling, I plan to flip the bird more often to exercise my freedom-of-expression rights. I see it as a civic duty.
Beyond the sobering fact that judges have time to deal with such pressing issues, it sure is entertaining.
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And here I thought when another driver flipped the bird at me, it meant “happy motoring.”
How could I be so wrong?
Ken Gray
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If “red-blooded Canadians” have this God-given right, pray tell what does that offer blue-blooded Canadians?
Lord Black of Crossharbour, who recently regained his Canadian citizenship, comes immediately to mind. Does this judge’s decision mean that poor Conrad cannot give the finger to the police (or anyone else) with impunity? The question of his rights has been raised frequently throughout his time on this earth and he always asserts those rights where he can whether or not other mere mortals agree with him.
It would be shocking for a British aristocrat to discover that there are rights that attain to other Canadians of lesser importance that he doesn’t possess simply because of his higher standing in the grand scheme of things. Does this mean that Jean Chretien is fully within his rights to give His Lordship the finger but he cannot return the sentiment?
What will be the punishment visited upon him should he do such a thing? Does this mean he could possibly go back to prison for such an act?
Asking for a friend …