OTTAWA — Canada's Conservatives are poised to debate a resolution at their upcoming convention on whether to declare that any Canadian citizen who takes up arms against the military of this country or one of its allies should be automatically stripped of citizenship and be tried for "high treason."
The resolution is just one of dozens — on issues ranging from tax policy, to euthanasia, to prostitution to same-sex marriage— that Tory delegates will discuss at a convention in June.
Some will be routine and — as in the case of a proposal to end public subsidies for political parties — reflective of plans already announced by the Conservative government.
Others, such as a proposal to effectively scale back the government's commitment to regulate Canadian industry on greenhouse gas emissions, could be contentious.
Among the resolutions that could draw attention is the one on high treason.
Currently, the Criminal Code allows for someone to be charged if they assist "an enemy at war with Canada, or any armed forces against whom Canadian Forces are engaged in hostilities, whether or not a state of war exists between Canada and the country whose forces they are."
Anyone convicted is automatically sentenced to life in prison.
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Democracy Gone Astray
Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.
All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.
[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]
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