{"id":527266,"date":"2022-01-31T13:07:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=527266"},"modified":"2022-01-31T13:07:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:07:26","slug":"preston-manning-on-why-the-constitution-supports-the-truckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=527266","title":{"rendered":"Preston Manning on why the Constitution supports the truckers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Participants in the Freedom Convoy currently occupying Ottawa are exercising their freedom of belief, expression, association, and assembly \u2014 all rights guaranteed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Section 6 of that Charter also specifically guarantees \u201cmobility rights\u201d \u2014 the right of every citizen \u201cto enter, remain in, and leave Canada\u201d and the right to move and gain a livelihood.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>If the federal government wants to limit the exercise of these rights, according to Sections 1 and 24(1) of the Constitution Act, 1982, it must be able, if challenged, to demonstrate before a court of competent jurisdiction that the law imposing the limitation is reasonable and justifiable in a free and democratic society. This the Trudeau government has failed to do, and thus it is the members of that government not the truckers and their friends who are failing to comply with the rule of law.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Preston Manning was the founder of the Reform Party of Canada, served as leader of the official Opposition in Parliament and is a founder of the Canada Strong and Free Network.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participants in the Freedom Convoy currently occupying Ottawa are exercising their freedom of belief, expression, association, and assembly \u2014 all rights guaranteed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Section 6 of that Charter also specifically guarantees \u201cmobility rights\u201d \u2014 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=527266\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}