VANCOUVER — A lawyer for B.C.'s Public Safety Ministry says the City of Surrey is seeking a 'radical expansion' of freedom-of-expression protections under Canada's Charter in its legal dispute with the province over policing in the city.
VANCOUVER — A lawyer for B.C.'s Public Safety Ministry says the City of Surrey is seeking a"radical expansion" of freedom-of-expression protections under Canada's Charter in its legal dispute with the province over policing in the city.
Bant was speaking on day four of the city's legal challenge against the public safety minister's order to continue the switch from the RCMP to the municipal force. "The legislation has not restricted anyone from expressing themselves," Bant said of the provincial law requiring the transition to the municipal Surrey Police Service.
Applying the Charter to the result of a collective vote, rather than individual expression, Bant said, would be a"significant expansion."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 the province's legislation did not prevent anyone from voting,"the expressive activity at issue."
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."
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