I shared a Facebook post by Jane Scharf (see below) criticizing Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre’s statement that he is willing to override the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms using the Notwithstanding Clause in order to punish criminals with multiple life sentences.

This CBC article has details of his statement: Poilievre says he’d pass a law that overrides a Charter right. That would be a first for a PM

…. Poilievre promised to use the notwithstanding clause to impose consecutive life sentences on multiple murderers. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2022 that imposing consecutive life sentences violates an offender’s Charter rights.

I also wanted to comment on the foreign policy stances (on China and Israel) I have perceived since people started being drawn to the Conservatives (and conservative media) as potential Saviours.

I have the same concerns about the Trump administration in the US and I don’t see the Liberals as much different even with foreign policy.

There is a ruling oligarchy and it uses this two-party trick every time.

The Liberals have lost credibility with a large segment of the public and so the oligarchy offers the Conservatives as an alternative–the usual routine.

This promise to override the Charter is opening the door for more abuses.

It’s the same situation in the US with people falling for the “lesser of two evils” trick with their eyes half closed not seeing the tech billionaires–military industrial contractors– hovering around, prepping their technocratic anti-human system.

Jane Scharf’s post with information also about her Grand Jury petition strategy

Why Pierre Poilievre using Section 33 (“the Notwithstanding Clause”) to override basic rights is dangerous for everyone, even if they think it’s “only about criminals”:
Imagine you live in a country where the government can rip away your most basic rights — not because Parliament voted after a real debate — but because one man, the Prime Minister, decided it.
That’s what happens when Section 33 is used.
❌ It’s not a real democratic vote.
❌ It’s a party-ordered rubber stamp — the Prime Minister tells his MPs how to vote under party discipline (the “party whip”). They can’t say no without losing their jobs.
➡️ So in reality, it’s one guy — Pierre Poilievre — deciding your rights disappear.
Now Poilievre is talking about using Section 33 to override:
• ⚖️ Your right to reasonable bail (so you can be jailed without trial).
• ⚖️ Your right not to suffer cruel and unusual punishment (so you can be tortured by “tough on crime” policies).
Think that’s only for “bad guys”?
❌ Wrong.
Once the power is there, governments ALWAYS expand it.
➡️ Today it’s “violent offenders.”
➡️ Tomorrow it’s “protesters,” “journalists,” “the wrong political party,” “the wrong religion.”
History proves this every single time.
Look at monarchies and dictatorships:
• 👑 In monarchies, the King’s word is law. No bail. No rights.
• ☠️ In dictatorships, like Stalin’s Soviet Union or Pinochet’s Chile, people disappeared without trial because “emergency” powers made it “legal.”
⚡ This is EXACTLY how you get there. ⚡
When you give the Prime Minister the power to suspend rights ➡️ without real debate, ➡️ without real votes, ➡️ without real safeguards,
you’re NOT living in a democracy anymore.
You’re living in an elected dictatorship.
✅ Real democracies protect rights even when it’s hard.
❌ Fake democracies find excuses to suspend them.
If you think Poilievre is only doing this for “bad people,” you’re playing the same stupid game people played in every country that slid into tyranny:
“I’m safe because I obey.
I’m safe because I’m not one of them.”
Until you are.
And don’t forget:
Section 33 was supposed to be used rarely, cautiously, if ever —
NOT whipped out like a sledgehammer because some pollster said “get tough.”
⚠️ Pierre Poilievre isn’t protecting you.
⚠️ He’s protecting his own power.
⚠️ And once you let a politician smash a fundamental right once, it’s NEVER just once.
Want to have a chance to get our democracy back on track? We have to do it ourselves with the grand jury. We have a legal right to grand jury, which is citizen lead inquiries into government, corruption, and overreach.
✍️ Grand Jury Petition: [change.org/GrandJuryPetition]
📁 Folder of Backstories for the petition:
https://shorturl.at/L3tTZ
📜 History of Grand Juries in Canada: https://bit.ly/3Gddarq
✍️ Vee petition election challenge: https://www.change.org/ElectionPetition
📜 https://docs.google.com/…/1ufBbbYsnzVUGTaBJdWqDokI…/edit
✍️ Stand with Police: change.org/standwithpolice