r/canadaguns 12d ago

News / Politics / Activism Supreme Court Hearing Date Set!

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u/Cock_ball_dickin 12d ago

I’m not gonna lie I’m incredibly nervous. How do you all think it will go?

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u/rastamasta45 12d ago

Truthfully there is serious merit to the case, because the argument isn’t really about guns it’s about the governments ability to declare criminal law via OIC and the seizure of property.

Theoretically if the government wins, it sets a highly dangerous precedent in that any government, minority or majority can rule via OIC and criminalize and seize property. So in effect a government could say “your gas cars are now a threat to the environment, via oic they are banned and only 5% of you will get compensation”

They could OIC new speech laws and hate speech and then straight criminalize their opponents. So this isn’t a shoe in for the government.

On the flip side, the LPC might want to drop the battle, because the Supreme Court could neuter the power of OIC’s and I don’t think they want that either

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u/Vivie74 12d ago

One thing I would be curious to see is the OIC and Property Rights. Especially given we are looking at this ALTO disaster.. what if an idea was to be made that they could use an OIC to take land for the purpose of this project - damned be the protests.

Something to think about.

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u/InitialAd4125 11d ago

Can't they already do that? But like they're forced to actually pay unlike now where they aren't even bothering to pay.

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u/Zarphos 11d ago

Whose land has been seized without payment?

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u/InitialAd4125 10d ago

No I was talking about the guns and how the government is avoiding fair payment.