This web site was developed to help inform people of the actions that various goverment agencies, goverment officials and private corporations are taking to help take away some of the fundamental freedoms guaranteed to you from the Canadian Constitution and Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

This is a related excerpt from the Canadian Constitution and Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Section 2 2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a)Freedom of conscience and religion; (b)Freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other means of communication; (c)Freedom of peaceful assembly; and (d)Freedom of association.

Sub-section (B) Could be determined as you have the freedom of the press, including newspapers, books, magazines, radio and newspapers.

Also bear in mind this excerpt from the Canadian Constitution:

Section 52 The Constitution is the supreme law of canada, and any law that is inconsistant with the provisions of the constitution is, to the extent of the inconsistency, of no force or effect.

This could be interpreted that any law that infringes on your constitutional rights have no force if challenged on this basis

Canadians have enjoyed satellite television in their homes for over 20 years, since the days where the big C band dishes littered the country.

Now, private corporations like Bell Expressvu and WIC, Goverment agencies like the CRTC and Heritage Ministry, Law Enforcement agencies like the R.C.M.P. are campaigning to make it illegal for you to receive any satellite transmisions that are not sanctioned as "OK" for you to view, or ones that are not provided by an approved distributor like Bell Expressvu.

We at the Canadian Freedoms Site find these action extremely offensive. In fact, they are also in direct contradiction of a quote from Keith Spicer , the chairman of the CRTC in 1995;

"...the western world has spent 40 years telling the Russians that it was immoral to block broadcasts. We're certainly not going to start doing that in Canada. Canadians are free people, they should act freely" Keith Spicer, Chairman CRTC, Jan. 17, 1995

As "free" people, Canadians should have the right to choose what we watch in the privacy of our homes. We should not be forced to watch CBC simply because a goverment agency has decided that CBC is better than USA network and so USA network is purposly amde unavailable to you.

At the same time, companies like Bell Expressvu are actively litigating companies that market satellite equipment that makes foreign reception possible. Their campaign objective is very clear: Make Foreign Reception "illegal" and then Canadians will be forced to purchase substitute programming from them or another Canadian Distributor instead.

This would be simuliar to FORD trying to force you to buy their automobiles by making GM products "illegal."

Successful litigation by Bell Expressvu (where the Canadian Constitution was not even considered, only distribution rights) has provided the RCMP with a favorable court ruling that they can use to seize equipment, and arrest people that market foreign satellite broadcast equipment.

They have acted, upon instruction by Industry Canada raid many smaller satellite dealers and sieze foreign reception equipment. Many of these dealers, had their entire inventories seized, well as personal property, without any criminal charges even being laid or property ever returned. These actions can also be interpreted as illegal according to a section of the the Canadian Constitution:

SEARCH OR SEIZURE. 8. Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.

They have even published a web site document at http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/html/satellite-e.htm that makes you believe that a civil court case has suddenly made it illegal for you to posess foreign broadcast equipment even though this was simple a civil case over distribution rights and nothing has been adopted in parliment to this effect. Several other judgements in lower courts that ruled that Canadians have a constitutional right to receive foreign broadcasts are being totally ignored and the basis of their actions is based on this one judgement. The RCMP is using money provided by taxpayers to assist private corporations like Bell Expressvu to try and persuade owners of foreign broadcast equipment to trade it in on an Expressvu or Starchoice system. (Possible mis-appropriation of funds in my opinion)

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