Canadian Supreme Court = Freedom!

[Vladimir]

Lol at the irony.

CR

Think about who you're talking to.

[InsaneApache]

God bless Her Majesties constabulary.

[Beirut]

Think about who you're talking to.

Good Lord I must be thick, I still don't see what you're on about.

[Tribesman]

Good Lord I must be thick, I still don't see what you're on about.

Think about it , there was no irony in what you wrote except that which someone imagined .
However what they wrote is really ironic

[Adrian II]

Good Lord I must be thick, I still don't see what you're on about.

Neither do I.

1. Searching for bombs and guns and box cutter at airports is different from sending drug sniffers into skools, right?

2. And how would that be ironic because it's coming from Crazed Rabbit instead of someone else?

Guess I'm thick a well.

[ICantSpellDawg]

That sounds like a good decision. Airport security is one thing, putting kids into a police state is totally different.

[Beirut]

That sounds like a good decision. Airport security is one thing, putting kids into a police state is totally different.

Exactly.

Freedom has reasonable limitations. Section 8 of our Constitution protects us not from being searched, but from being unreasonably searched. Being searched before boarding an airplane does not, in my mind, constitute an unreasonable search.

Apparently the court hasn't made a final decision on airport searches but I can't believe they would disallow them. If they did, the government would use the Notwithstanding Clause in the Constitution and overule the court. It's been done before, but not often and always creates a huge fuss.

[KukriKhan]

Just a wild guess here, but our favorite dog-loving esteemed Moderator, with
"Unto each good man a good dog" as his sig, applauds a decision wherein drug-sniffing search dogs will lose some of their business...

might be considered mildly ironic.

Sure loses something in the 'splainin', eh?

Anywayyyyy:

...get a warrant, get a reason, or get the hell out

Amen, Brother.

[Redleg]

Exactly.

Freedom has reasonable limitations. Section 8 of our Constitution protects us not from being searched, but from being unreasonably searched. Being searched before boarding an airplane does not, in my mind, constitute an unreasonable search.

Apparently the court hasn't made a final decision on airport searches but I can't believe they would disallow them. If they did, the government would use the Notwithstanding Clause in the Constitution and overule the court. It's been done before, but not often and always creates a huge fuss.

I fly an alot with my new job, and at least in the United States Airlines are primary a private business with Governmental oversite. I am willing to bet, since I havent read the ticket that closely, that by the purchase of the ticket you are agreeing to be searched. Going to have to look into that to make sure.

So I am not sure if ruling a search of a school locker without a warrant as unconstitutional is ironic because if the state allows the agreement to be searched to be a precondition of the ticket purchase. That would constitute a reasonable expectation of being searched.

Now it all depends on how the constitution is worded also. From your describition of the Canadian constitution seems to cover the case of an airport search anyway as a reasonable search.

Now one could argue that searching students at school for contraband as listed on the school charter and rules document would be constitutional if it was alreadly established in its charter - because the expectation of a reasonable search would be there alreadly. Would all depend on the actual documents involved, and if the documents passed the courts review as being within the constitution.

Either way when the court rules to insure an individual rights over the state - its always a good thing.

[Beirut]

Now it all depends on how the constitution is worded also. From your describition of the Canadian constitution seems to cover the case of an airport search anyway as a reasonable search.

The relevant text from the Canadian Contstitution:

LIFE, LIBERTY AND SECURITY OF PERSON.

7. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.

SEARCH OR SEIZURE.

8. Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.

Now one could argue that searching students at school for contraband as listed on the school charter and rules document would be constitutional if it was alreadly established in its charter - because the expectation of a reasonable search would be there alreadly. Would all depend on the actual documents involved, and if the documents passed the courts review as being within the constitution.

The court ruled that a student has the same right of privacy regarding what's in his schoolbag as an adult has regarding their purse of briefcase. And you sure as shoot cannot stop a woman and ask what's in her purse without a helluva god reason. Even if you're married to her. (Especially if you're married to her.)

Either way when the court rules to insure an individual rights over the state - its always a good thing.

Amen indeed.