It's been two weeks since the NL Court of Appeal sat to hear the appeal of my denied application for habeas corpus from last April. I don't know to what level the Justices are examining the legislation responsible for my detainment, but I hope they are able to dig out all the possibilities of bad faith interpretations. The comparison between Newfoundland and Labrador's mental health legislation and Ontario's mental health legislation during the hearing exposed the lack of safe guards in the NL system that allows for these kinds of abuses to take place. It is frustrating that the original application was denied under the assertion that I could have the matter reviewed by a legislative board within a few weeks. Its been over a year and two weeks now and the matter still has yet to be reviewed. It seems that at some point someone should also be asking the question of how the provincial and federal governments of Canada were granted the power under C-51 to detain citizens based on fear instead of factual evidence. It repeals the right of habeas corpus and effectively denies section 10(c) of the Charter. My detention wasn't based on C-51, the law having not come into effect at that time, but that didn't stop the provincial officials overseeing the matter from coming up with a compromise. In some cases it's a matter of active thought policing through improper profiling done by officers who have no real training in the matter. Someone criticizes Canadian foreign policy too strongly, has the wrong ethnic or religious background, and they suddenly become a target for the police who have a mandate to crack down on that kind of behavior. In most cases it is more a matter of fear mongering. They want to spread the idea that they're watching everything you do. That they're actively policing the internet as a public space, quietly allowing themselves into your home to look over your shoulder. Even reading from the wrong news media outlets might get you targeted for further observation. 800 years after King John was forced to sign the first Magna Carta that granted habeas corpus rights in 1215, the Harper Government took those rights back from Canadians. They reestablished Crown dominance and exempted our top politicians from following the rule of law. Trudeau doesn't seem to interested in giving up the newly minted throne. Nor do any of our provincial politicians seem interested in contesting their new powers. How can Canada be expected to remain a free and democratic society if our governments have been granted the full right of Kings over us and our homes are no longer our castles?