Adding prosecutor puts teeth in Alberta farm protest proposal
Article originally appeared in: Advocate Daily [Archived]
Proposed legislation to address protesters who trespass on Alberta farms and agricultural land sends a strong message that if you break the law, you’ll pay the price, says Calgary criminal lawyer Greg Dunn.
Dunn, principal of Dunn & Associates Criminal Defence Lawyers, says the rights to free speech and assembly, by definition, do not include the right “to break the law or to commit a criminal offence on other members of society.”