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Jun 17·edited Jun 17

To my mind as a citizen of Canada with very limited legal and constitutional knowledge but having read sections pertaining to "Cruel and Unusual Punishment" at Section 12."Sections 7 to 14 protect people’s rights when they are dealing with the justice system. They make sure people can trust it and that they are treated fairly, especially when they are charged with a crime. They are based on a belief in the dignity and worth of every human being." It boggles the mind that in the 21st Century we have modern examples of Victorian debtor punitive measures, gender specific to men and yet the female gender is allowed total mischief of withholding children and lawless, unchecked discord throughout so-called "family law". Where are equal examples in case law of loss of mobility vis-à-vis the revocation of license and passport for failure to pay for the children of men? To juxtapose the "crime" and punishment allotment of 80 days compared to that of organized criminals, gun violence directed at elementary schools and public declarations of anti-Semitic hate speech and encampments on campuses across the country, of late, which are not even given the time of day by law enforcement (but in some cases offered doughnuts & coffee.) Yet another father is destroyed with zeal and fervor in an epidemic of fatherlessness in North America. ...Kafka has landed and the eagle of freedom is fatally wounded in this "trial" of grand scheme supporting the arcane and archaic craft of "family law". May it be dismantled and abolished when male reproductive rights are realized in legislation in the next era with no place for misandry.

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