posted ago by Nombre27 ago by Nombre27 +7 / -0

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/canadian-dies-ukraine-medic-1.6716143

They're literally posting pictures of him armed (one where he looks like he's sleeping with his rifle) and then claiming he was a medic.

The law itself is written in typically stupid Canadian fashion where terms are poorly defined, i.e. foreign state is defined but then used as friendly foreign state in the relevant section.

As per the letter of the law, CBC is violating it as well. They're obviously misrepresenting this guy as a medic which may induce others to go be "medics".

"Any person who induces any other person to leave Canada or to go on board any conveyance within Canada under a misrepresentation or false representation of the service in which such person is to be engaged, with the intent or in order that such person may accept or agree to accept any commission or engagement in the armed forces of any foreign state at war with any friendly foreign state, is guilty of an offence."

https://lois-laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/F-28/FullText.html