19) xposting from facebook:

In the criminal code of canada, perhaps somewhat obscurely, there's a section about "personne jouissant d’une protection internationale". This section provides for criminal charges in the case of "attacks on [particular people ie personnes jouissant d’une protection internationale] freedom *or dignity*," ie not only physical attacks but reputational ones -- at least a certain class of careless insults. ie the kind that is freely thrown around on the internet usually especially in the more politically polarized parts. Donald Trump, specifically, under canadian law, is a "personne jouissant d’une protection internationale" and as such it is not legal in this country to insult him, or his family, or to make image macro memes displaying him with tiny hands, sucking elon musk's toes, or other derogatory, insulting-to-Krasnov's-"dignity" material.

This is a statutory right, agreed upon in UN treaties (including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination, at the very least ) but according to Blencoe v British Columbia (Human Rights Commission), [2000] 2 S.C.R. 307 ) human dignity is *not* a constitutional right in Canada. --- ie so we don't need to use the notwithstanding clause to get rid of it for someone.

We treat "personnes jouissant d’une protection internationale" as a special case out of a sort of diplomatic truce between nations, probably to keep citizens of other nations from making *too* much fun of His Majesty Pisimwa Kamiwohkitahpamikohk. It's a compromise that we've had since forever -- that we have a law on the books that *could* in principle be used against those who insult foreign leaders, but it's not enforced most of the time because for most of canada's history before about the mid 1980s regular canadians didn't have access to large publishing platforms capable of reaching the world/the foreign leaders in question. So it wasn't really important to care what regular canadians thought outside of those in major newspapers, media and they can be effectively dealt with with through threats of censorship via other means (ie SLAPP suits, CSIS/RCMP blackmail, whatever). But we don't live in the early 1980s we live in the 21st century where everyone has in their pocket a device capable of broadcasting messages to the world and this law is still on the books. Its existence is threatening to crash down on canadian citizens who might be tempted to let their emotions boil over at say the prospect of Krasnov unilaterally redrawing the canadian border against our nation's consent.

Make no mistake: singing "FDT"[1] or saying something similarly negative about him is almost certainly illegal in canada. This poses a bit of a puzzle because 'politeness' *is* a in canadian culture generally and the law should reflect that on some level. But on the other hand, we are faced with a situation where we're about to do grave damage to our economy by applying retaliatory tariffs to our largest trading partner - something that should within all reason be viewed as categorically worse than just letting Canadians tell Felon45 to suck on a moose's tits or whatever.

Perhaps we should consider dropping the plan to apply tariffs to the US and instead either

1) carve out an exception specifically for insulting COVIDIOT-45 in our criminal code, so that he can be insulted freely.

2) just drop this language in the criminal code altogether and admit that the global internet makes such law antiquated and more than a little ridiculous

3) just drop the "dignity" part -- physical attacks on "personnes jouissant d’une protection internationale" are probably worth punishing extra and that should be enough.

4) We could have a specific carve-out for the "dignity" of a particular reoccurring guest on Jeffrey Epstein's lolita express.

5) We could replace it with something a little more like a speeding ticket which might actually be enforcable / justiciable.

Either way: changing the law relating to "personne jouissant d’une protection internationale" should be something we consider rather than impoverishing hundreds of thousands of canadians with unnecessary tariffs on our biggest trading partner.

[1] https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=BlIREcAu0PI