Oh Canada, Thou Nanny State
4th June 2011
A Canadian student has been suspended from school and had the police sicced on him due to satirical animations that he posted to YouTube.
Jack Christie, a 12th-grade student at the Donald A. Wilson Secondary School in Whitby, Ontario, Canada, created the videos in his own time, off-campus.
So why is the school getting involved? Why, because of the Thought Police, of course.
While we may find the animations entertaining, Durham District School Board spokeswoman Andrea Pidwerbecki was not amused. “If something is considered detrimental to the positive moral tone of the school, it doesn’t necessarily have to happen inside the school [for us to get involved],” she told The Globe and Mail of Toronto.
Thank God you don’t live in Canada.
June 4th, 2011 at 08:46
Your behavior and disrespect for authority will go into your permanent file and follow you for the rest of your life. The authorities never forget, never forgive, and always seek revenge even when the authorities are overturned and replaced by new authorities.
The poor young man seems deluded about the state of freedom in Canada. I paraphrase: “freedom is an American value, not a Canadian value.” The Canadian charters and bills and constitutions have the same status as “law” in the Soviet Union: they are less than a suggestion.