Wheat from the Chaff

Put up a sign!

I don't normally promote anything written in the The Province, but a recent column by Ethan Baron certainly caught my eye. The scenario he presents, that of the police entering your house to confiscate anti-Olympics signs taped to your window, seems like a fairly plausible proposition. Is it populist fear mongering? Perhaps, but given recent laws proposed by municipalities and the provincial government, I don't feel totally confident that we can trust the municipalities to go after commercial signage only. Moreover, the RCMP seems oblivious to the growing concern over their tactics and Olympic mandate, a mandate that seems to pay more attention to the needs of the IOC than the requirements of Section 2 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.