I have a Facebook friend who says he’s a “Freeman on the Land.” He posted a photo of a speeding ticket and said he didn’t have to pay it because he’s not part of our society (he’s from here and still lives here). His friends made comments claiming that they’d successfully fought tickets using this argument. None of this makes any sense to me. There’s no way this can get him out of a ticket, right? – Dana, Victoria
You can’t get out of a traffic ticket by saying that the law doesn’t apply to you – but that doesn’t stop people from trying.
“You see it all the time, often in tax cases where people want to get out of their taxes,” said Kyla Lee, a criminal lawyer in Vancouver. “These cases have been consistently dismissed by courts in Canada.”
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