In Canada, the police cannot search letters and packages while they are in the hands of Canada Post.
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In Canada, the police cannot search letters and packages while they are in the hands of Canada Post. Bill S-256 would change that, and allow police the power to open letters and parcels in transit - with a warrant. Some Indigenous leaders say they need police to have those powers, to stem the flood of fentanyl onto reserve. But I have serious misgivings about eliminating very historic privacy rights. https://youtu.be/J1jXoRH3e3M?si=P0_b_sj3x9s1Eppe #SenateofCanada #CanadaPost #Canada #fentanyl
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Senator Paula Simonsreplied to Senator Paula Simons last edited by
Too long, would rather read? Here's a link to the text of my remarks on Bill S-256, in which I tell the tale of the Great Post Office Espionage Scandal of 1844 - and express my misgivings about creating law that treats Indigenous communities differently than non-Indigenous ones. https://sencanada.ca/en/senators/simons-paula/interventions/653249/63#hID #SenateofCanada #CanadaPost #fentanyl #OpiodCrisis #Canada
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Please stand strong and vote against this. "But it's for a good purpose" always leads to abuse down the road.
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@cazabon That’s what worries me.
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@Paulatics When we grant new powers we grant someone in the future the power to abuse the new powers. It happens every time.
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@edwiebe Yup
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What about sniffer dogs checking incoming mail to concerned reserves? -
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@NMBA That is one of the options under consideration. But I worry about making laws that only apply on reserve - even when a chief and council request such measures.
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As if the police care about the Reserves. The police will use authoritative power for everything BUT helping Indigenous people.
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@Paulatics Yes, giving #police more powers is only playing into #colonial, #carceral oppression. More than anyone, the #Indigenous peoples of this land should be aware of that and oppose it strenuously.
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@ned This was my concern. But I also felt awkward, as a white woman of senatorial privilege, lecturing Indigenous leaders about what I thought was best for their communities.
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@dbattistella Agreed. But it also feels uncomfortable for me, as a white woman with all kinds of privilege, to tell Indigenous leaders that they’re making the wrong choice for their own communities.
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understand. They are trying to save their people, but it feels a lot like inviting the fox to guard the chickens. Ijeoma Oluo commented on the recent spate of #Black influencers' videos mad with people on the Left who didn't vote for #Harris. Oluo explains why we're seeing so many of these & asks us to question who it benefits most. In the 2nd part of her message she lays out the work necessary for collective liberation & abolition. Sadly the #police are not friends to any of that. -
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@Paulatics Imnsho we have a *duty* to speak up.
If you say that indigenous people, or any marginalised group, can't make mistakes and that people outside the community can't have ideas to contribute, that's a kind of inverted colonialism. It still denies them equality and agency and perpetuates hierarchies and ghettoisation.
People who possess agency engage in discourse and debate as equals. And then make their own decisions.
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Senator Paula Simonsreplied to paul is not paranoid ☭ 🇵🇸 last edited by
@prgauthier @dbattistella Well, this is the conundrum. And so I did speak up. As I noted in my speech, I don’t think we consulted enough Indigenous leaders to make this decision.
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Mary Linvillereplied to Senator Paula Simons last edited by
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@ned They are desperate and grasping at straws. Maybe better to start at the place of acknowledging their desperation and *asking* is there another way that we could meet this challenge and help their community that doesn't have the very likely possibility of turning around and actually hurting the community more. Because you DO know what the white police is likely to also do with this power. -
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@Paulatics as soon as police gain a power, they start abusing it. This would be no different.
