Canada is an advanced economy, we alone have developed the "experience different" card and implemented it across government like no other nation on Earth.
Yeah it's really dangerous when a government or its highest ranking officials can absolve themselves of accountability by just claiming disagreement on subjective interpretation. If literal abuse of a sexual, physical or emotional nature can be excused with "experienced differently", what else can be excused? Concentration camps? Torture? Extermination?
By using that excuse, the people in charge are basically saying "IDGAF, I can do whatever I want and I'm not accountable to anyone".
I was curious if the GG has Sovereign Immunity like the Queen does when I heard that Payette may have assaulted someone. I couldn't find an answer though. The closest I came was that Lt. Govs can't claim sovereign privilege. A Quebec Lt. Gov tried and was refused by the courts.
It looks like the Queen is responsible for civil penalties but not criminal ones, unless I'm misreading it.
Canada is an advanced economy, we alone have developed the "experience different" card and implemented it across government like no other nation on Earth.
Yeah it's really dangerous when a government or its highest ranking officials can absolve themselves of accountability by just claiming disagreement on subjective interpretation. If literal abuse of a sexual, physical or emotional nature can be excused with "experienced differently", what else can be excused? Concentration camps? Torture? Extermination? By using that excuse, the people in charge are basically saying "IDGAF, I can do whatever I want and I'm not accountable to anyone".
I was curious if the GG has Sovereign Immunity like the Queen does when I heard that Payette may have assaulted someone. I couldn't find an answer though. The closest I came was that Lt. Govs can't claim sovereign privilege. A Quebec Lt. Gov tried and was refused by the courts.
It looks like the Queen is responsible for civil penalties but not criminal ones, unless I'm misreading it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity#Canada