Re:Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for ...
by endymi0n on Monday May 06, 2019 @01:27AM
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Well, in a country with a for-profit, for-"performance" law enforcement system, where prosecutors are paid by how many people they put in jail and cops are paid by how many traffic tickets they write, do you really think some paper from 1787 is going to have much influence on a TSA agent if their paycheck depends on sorting out as many "bad guys" as possible?
Re:Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for ...
by thefringthing on Monday May 06, 2019 @09:56AM
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The Canadian constitution (specifically the part of it called the Charter of Rights and Freedoms) guarantees the same right, however, constitutional rights in Canada are granted only up to "reasonable limits". Those limits are determined by the Supreme Court.
Re:Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for ...
by krageon on Monday May 06, 2019 @09:30AM
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> people are free from unreasonable searches and seizures
I want to say "clearly you have never used US customs", though I suppose it's possible you have and you are just very lucky.
Not sure where you live, but in the US it's actually his first and foremost responsibility to uphold a constitution that says that people are free from unreasonable searches and seizures.