But administrative agencies have a lot of discretion and scope to interpret their mandates. They can choose to interpret those mandates to minimize their interference with core freedoms, or they can interpret their mandates in ways indifferent to core freedoms.
Canada's human rights commissions did not have to extend the definition of "discrimination" to include speech: That was a choice, a bad choice. And Elections Canada has a similar choice to make about how it treats speech. It could give local candidates wide scope to express themselves in the way that those local candidates think most effective--or it can create a new role for itself as the hall monitor of Canadian elections, adjudicating what candidates can and cannot say in their campaigns.
That is the path that Elections Canada is treading now, and it is a very dangerous one. Soon it will be telling candidates how much local involvement is "enough" and how much is not enough. Does the ad have to be produced locally? Or is it enough if it just features the local candidate? If it features the local candidate, how long must the feature last? Can a group of local candidates cooperate if the national party is not involved? And how many may co-operate before the group ceases to be "local" and becomes
"national"?
The more we peel the Elections Canada onion, just as we peel the "Human Rights" Commissions onion, the more we smell Liberal Fascism at work.
Why can't the Conservatives communicate the same way that the other political parties get to communicate during elections? Come on... I mean, the "spending cap" issue is really just a convenient excuse for EC to persecute and discriminate against the Conservatives, who aren't part of the "progressive" fascist movement as are the other parties and as is the leftist-dominated state apparatus, which is separate from the executive, duly elected and accountable government, and I suspect the true agenda of EC, regardless of whomever appointed some of the officials, is to limit the Conservatives' ability to communicate as effectively as the other parties have been allowed to. After all, the other parties do exactly the same things as have the Conservatives, but only the Conservatives get jackbooted by EC.
It appears that Elections Canada may have become like the "Human Rights" Commissions, a body which discriminates seemingly exclusively against non-"progressives".
As we must abolish the useless, dangerous CHRC and the related Section 13.1 of the "Human Rights Act", we must reform Elections Canada so that it cannot discriminate, cannot be partisan and ideological. We must eradicate the Liberal Fascism therefrom.
