Martin and property rights
Paul Martin's latest rant is against Stephen Harper's suggestion that property rights be included in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Martin says the sky will fall, if this is done. It will lead to elimination of workplace safety, child labour law, and the minumum wage law. How this follows from protecting property rights is a puzzlement, but Paul Martin has no problem making soaring leaps of illogic when it comes to attacking Harper.
No doubt it will come as a surprise to Martin to find that property rights are already protected in federal legislation. The 1960 Bill of Rights, which has never been repealed, provides in s. 1 (a) for "the right of the individual to life, liberty, security of the person and the enjoyment of property....". This is federal legislation binding on the federal government, and it has been in place for 45 years. Martin seems unaware of this.
If the sky was going to fall because property rights were protected in the Charter, it would have fallen long ago. Once again Martin has demonstrated that he is both dishonest and incompetent.
Martin says the sky will fall, if this is done. It will lead to elimination of workplace safety, child labour law, and the minumum wage law. How this follows from protecting property rights is a puzzlement, but Paul Martin has no problem making soaring leaps of illogic when it comes to attacking Harper.
No doubt it will come as a surprise to Martin to find that property rights are already protected in federal legislation. The 1960 Bill of Rights, which has never been repealed, provides in s. 1 (a) for "the right of the individual to life, liberty, security of the person and the enjoyment of property....". This is federal legislation binding on the federal government, and it has been in place for 45 years. Martin seems unaware of this.
If the sky was going to fall because property rights were protected in the Charter, it would have fallen long ago. Once again Martin has demonstrated that he is both dishonest and incompetent.
posted by Brian Purdy, Calgary at 9:13 a.m.
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