10/9/2009
How would you like to be fined up to ten thousand dollars a day ...or spend six months in jail...For posting something in your window considered offensive to the 2010 Olympics?
Municipal workers in Vancouver, Richmond and Whistler may soon have the power to enter private property and remove signs...something BC Civil Liberties Association President Robert Holmes considers a violation of free speech.
Holmes says, "Because if you think through what people get thrown in jail for in this country, six months in jail is usually reserved for criminals who have a record of several convictions of breaking and entering, but now it’s the government that wants to break in and take down signs that should be part of people's freedom of expression."
Holmes says --if approved-- he doubts this legislation can be effectively challenged in court before the games wrap up.
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