HIGH RIVER CHARTER VIOLATIONS: Danielle Smith interviews Dennis Young on QR770 News Talk Radio Re: The Need for a Judicial Inquiry in High River
Go to October 5, 2015 at 1PM - Scroll over to 1:46 pm to listen to this interview
THE NEXT STEP: A FORMAL COMPLAINT
TO UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
I am now in the process of drafting a formal complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the following reasons:
(1) The failure of the RCMP Public Complaints Commission to address many questions and concerns I raised in my eight letters sent to the Chairman and my op-ed pieces published before the release of the Interim Report on the illegal High River forced entries, unwarranted searches and seizures.
(2) The failure of the RCMP Public Complaints Commission to address the legal analysis by the Alberta Property Rights Advocate in both his 2013 and 2014 annual reports and another independent review by Alberta lawyer Rick Hemmingson that reveals that the entry of 4,666 High River homes and in particular the forced entries into hundreds of those homes during the state of emergency were not properly authorized under the Alberta Emergency Management Act.
(3) The serious deficiencies in the RCMP Complaints Commission's Interim Report on the High River forced entries as identified in my commentaries and letters published after the release of the report.
(4) The RCMP Complaints Commission's Interim Report on the High River forced entries failed to address violations of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; namely, the right to privacy, the right to be secure from unreasonabe search and seizure and the right of every individual to be equal before and under the law and the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law. Thirty Alberta communities were flooded in 2013 but only the community of High River had their homes entered illegally and with unnecessary force and only in High River did people have their homes searched without warrant and property seized without warrant. Four thousand six hundred and sixty-six High River residents did not have 'equal protection of the law'.
(5) The RCMP Complaints Commission's Interim Report on the High River forced entries failed to address the rights violations as enumerated under the Canadian Bill of Rights; namely, the right to own and enjoy property, and the right not to be deprived thereof except by due process of law and the right of the individual to equal protection of the law.
(6) The RCMP Complaints Commission's Interim Report on High River forced entries failed to answer the question: How did the power to enter buildings without warrant in the Alberta Emergency Management Acthave priority over the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Alberta Bill of Rightsfor more than three weeks following the declaration of a State of Local Emergency in High River?
(7) The RCMP Complaints Commission's Interim Report on High River forced entries failed to document all the arrests and charges that were laid in High River as a result of the illegal entries and unwarranted searches and seizures. Some arrests and charges are still being kept secret. All persons charged in High River as a result of the illegal searches have not been treated equally before and under the law. Some persons charged have had their charges stayed or dropped altogether, others pled guilty and were wrongly convicted as a result.
(8) The RCMP illegal entry and unlawful search of 4,666 High River homes, the use of unnecessary force to enter 'more than 754' homes, causing damage to more than 1,900 of those homes, and seizing private property without warrants violated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Article 7 - the right to be equal before the law and equal protection of the law;
Article 12 - the right not to be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy; and
Article 17 - the right not to be arbitrarily deprived of his property.