You wake up one morning and the laws have changed. You realize that the society around you is no longer recognizable to you. The ideas and concepts that you have long considered abhorrent and contrary to the dignity of yourself and your fellow humans have now become the law. The laws have changed. What do you do?
Got an IRP and feeling lonely? You’re not alone. You’re part of a community with a particular common experience and particular insight into the state of justice in our province.
Three years ago we told our readers where things are going in BC. It saddens us that we were right. We explained two years ago that we all need to keep an eye on what the Government was doing piece by piece to dismantle our justice system. Now we see that the nightmare has become reality. And very few people noticed as it all happened.
Cries in the dark
Our quest to expose what’s going on, particularly with the implementation of the IRP scheme, has given us a larger audience. We’re told by unreliable sources that over 100,000 people have been issued IRPs. Many come to our blog to find out what’s going on and what we’re doing. So IRPs have a broader impact and we have a broader audience. But what about other tribunals? What’s going on in somewhat unremarkable areas of the law?
When presenting to lawyers who work in other areas of the law, I’m often approached afterward by colleagues who then report to me that they are witnessing the same types of mischief with the tribunals in their area of work. They tell me that the secret method of thwarting appeal courts has become a common practice.
One lawyer who approached me was almost crying. He reported that he was starting to question his own sanity when the tribunal continued to render illogical decisions to facilitate the Government’s agenda. He was practicing in an obscure area of the law and he had mistakenly come to believe that it was restricted to this particular tribunal.
There is comfort in knowing that you’re not alone.
Got an IRP and feeling lonely? You’re not alone. You’re part of a community with a particular common experience and particular insight into the state of justice in our province.
The laws have changed again, and it’s not healthy for our justice system
We said that Bill 15 would pass without any real dispute put up by the opposition and without any amendments. And so it happened and almost nobody noticed.
The law of BC now is that people who are issued IRPs are guilty until they prove their innocence. The law of BC is now that the office that runs the tribunal can create their own evidence for hearings. It might be secret evidence. They will not tell you how they created their own secret evidence.
The law has been passed and now it will come into effect by a secret meeting. It turns out that the provisions are described as coming into effect by regulation. In other words, there will be no debate – a secret meeting will spell the end of certain legal rights.
Secret plans
The secret plans have been to implement the new laws when all of the police in BC have stopped using the defective Alco-Sensor IV DWF breathalyzers. The secret plans probably include getting rid of these defective breathalyzers so nobody will have access to the evidence that shows they were wrongly issued an IRP. The secret plans included implementing the new IRP law right after the Supreme Court of Canada IRP appeal which is set to take place later this month. The secret hope is to bootstrap really bad laws onto an already bad system by first getting a misleading stamp of approval from the Supreme Court of Canada.
Our sneaky BC Government is playing every angle to thwart justice and undermine our justice system.
Our predictions have been correct in the past. We’ve watched as the laws have changed and it’s all very sad.