A lawyer for B.C.'s Public Safety Ministry says Surrey is seeking a 'radical expansion' of freedom-of-expression protections under the Charter in its dispute with the province .
The much anticipated legal battle over Surrey's police transition is underway at the B.C. Supreme Court. The City of Surrey is petitioning the court for a judicial review of the province's decision to order a move to a municipal police force. Aaron McArthur has more on day one of the week-long hearing.A lawyer for B.C.
Bant told Loo that allowing the city’s argument would convert Canada’s system of representative democracy into “a direct democracy, in which voters have a very literal right to get what they vote for.” He said voting itself was a protected “expressive activity,” but the results of a vote or a mandate given to an elected government are a “product” of that activity.
Bant said reports by both the province’s director of police services and Surrey city staff acknowledged that keeping the RCMP or transitioning to the municipal force were both feasible although “complex.”He told Loo that the RCMP had expected about half of Surrey Police Service officers to “patch over” and join the RCMP if the transition was halted, but the Surrey Police Union indicated up to 95 per cent of its officers wouldn’t join the RCMP after being terminated.
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