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Joanna Berry is a Canadian immigration and refugee lawyer in Ontario, Canada. On October 2, two Niagara Police Officers, one of them a sergeant detective, paid her a visit to her home. They told her they were there on behalf of the Ottawa Police Department because of her "personal social media." They begin to tell her that "10 lawyers who are of the Jewish faith" have filed a complaint with the police about her social media. As you can tell from the video, Joanna Berry, is outraged by the visit and clearly distraught. I reached out to the Niagara Regional Police for comment but they did not respond to my inquiry. I spoke with Joanna Berry also and she gave OTL Media permission to publish the video. She told us that she wants Canadians to see it and for the video to be a warning.

"This is very Orwellian"

On The Line Media is run by Samira Mohyeddin, a multi-award-winning journalist, documentary maker, and producer at CBC Radio Oneโ€™s The Current.

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[โ€“] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

For everyone's information, I support our Liberal government and I do support any of our current governments (even if I disagree with them politically) because I still believe in the rule of law everywhere. I don't subscribe to wild conspiracy theories about any democratically elected government.

However, I still hold that we should always be ready to question and hold our government, police and those in power accountable for everything they say, do or on how they direct those under them.

The actions of these police is a step too far in intimidating someone with personal views. As she explained, those who disagree with her views should speak to their company, talk to the social media company or speak to other authorities .... you don't go straight to the police to ask them to intimidate a political opponent.

We have to stand up to this level of bullying and intimidation. This isn't Canada. This isn't what I support. This isn't our government and this is not representative of our country.

[โ€“] jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I stopped believing in the rule of law as an actual reality in Canada or anything more than an ideal in June 2010.

[โ€“] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Was that G7/8 kettling?

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