Premier McQuinty,
You have truly crossed the line and shown total disregard and contempt for our Civil Rights by giving the police special powers of arrest for the G20 Summit. I am a proud Canadian and Ontarian, but today I’m truly embarrassed to be both as a result of your action that is reminiscent of a right wing South American police state.
You have put a knife through the heart of what it means to be a Canadian. With this one thoughtless act you have destroyed our innocence as a country. You have insulted everything we hold dear with what is an affront to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. With one swoop of the pen you have impacted our freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of association. You have moved our province and country from being one of peace, tolerance and virtue to being one of disharmony, intolerance and dishonour. Your have used the power of your office in a manner that is presumptuous and abusive.
It is now clear that you have learned nothing from the Harris era of government in Ontario. Like him, you are now operating with such arrogance that you have made the incorrect assumption that our province is home to nothing but unruly thugs and hoodlums. Like him you have lost touch with the people you are sworn to serve and forgotten the importance of peaceful protest and dissent in a vibrant democracy. Sadly you have made the single biggest political error in judgement of your political career. If you are a man who values peace and justice as you purport, every arrest made as a result of these new police powers will haunt you in perpetuity.
Sincerely,
Eric Morin
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