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▲ Y-bar 33 minutes ago

Which _specific_ GOD gave that right and did any of the other gods concur?

▲Shiggy_ 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The obvious answer here is "the one that you hate." Or, the Christian god of Abraham.

The preamble is not subtle: "Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law."

Now, legally/philosophically speaking, the Canadian concept of free-speech is laughably weak, as is all Canadian rights. Specifically, section one clearly states that rights are subject to "reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society". Effectively, if the government decides that you're "not reasonable," you have no rights.

The American system is quite clear about their rights being absolute and derived from God, where the idea is that the government is to uphold the existing divine rights afforded to all human beings, as opposed to the British system of which Canada (and the rest of the common-wealth is based off of) is a part of, where the government _grants_ the rights.

Another example of this is the British crown, in which authority is given by God. Many of the older cities derive their local authority in the same way. If I recall correctly, I believe that the city of London is so old that they actually mixed it up, and derive theirs from "time immemorial."

▲Y-bar 10 minutes ago | parent [-]

Serious question: Why would I hate any god?

▲Shiggy_ 7 minutes ago | parent [-]

Serious question: Why are you pretending that you don't know which god the western world is referring to in its legal documents?

▲Y-bar 3 minutes ago | parent [-]

I don’t regularly read legal documents of nations I don’t live in. Why did you assume I hate any god?

▲ecshafer 23 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

There is only one GOD.

▲flohofwoe 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Right, but I doubt the Flying Spaghetti Monster cares much about the indiviual rights of Canadian truckers (https://www.spaghettimonster.org/).

▲kijashdkujdfhas 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

According to you. Others may believe in values ranging from 0 to some large N.

▲benenrjdnz 7 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Off by one error.