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Porch Pirates Privacy? Canadian Police Say Don't Post Videos · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Well, here's the headline, Canadian police warn against posting surveillance footage of package
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  thieves as it could violate criminals privacy. Yeah, and I'll read that again
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  for you, just in case you couldn't believe what you were hearing when I
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  read it the first time. Canadian police warn against posting surveillance footage of package
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  thieves as it could violate criminals privacy. So I would have thought that when
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  you go onto somebody's property and steal from them, you'd be kind of giving
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  up your right to privacy. But I guess after eight years of the influence
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  of Justin Trudeau, any lunacy is possible. Let's see, a communications officer
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  for Quebec Provincial Police urged against posting images of the alleged thieves, the alleged
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  thieves that are caught on camera that could have been captured by door cameras.
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  And let's just hear what he had to say. You cannot post the images
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  yourself because you have to remember that in Canada we have a presumption of innocence
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  and posting that picture could be a violation of private life. If you get
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  some proof that somebody might have stolen something, then call the police, give
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  the proof to the police, and then we'll do the investigation. We'll bring
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  that person to justice and will file some charges. So again, I don't
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  understand how you can have the right to privacy when you go onto somebody else's
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  property to steal from them and you're caught on camera stealing from them, and
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  secondly, nothing's going to happen. They're not going to investigate it. Absolutely
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  nothing is going to happen. What this means is that there's just no recourse
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  right you can just be stolen from and there's absolutely nothing you can do.
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  The police are not going to find these people. Nothing is going to happen.
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  It sounds more to me like they just don't want people to actually know
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  about the problem and about how Canada is going from a very high trust society
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  to a low trust society. And again privacy. It's not like anybody followed
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  these guys home and filmed them in the shower. They were filmed stealing from
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  people by cameras on people's own property. Let's take a look at Canada crime
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  rates and statistics, and this is for just crime in general. Well,
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  let's see Trudeau took over in twenty fifteen, and there sure seems to be
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  an upward trend here, doesn't there. And this only goes up to twenty
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  twenty one, and it's gone up since then as well. Let's see,
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  interestingly, in the years up to Trudeau taking power there had been a decline
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  in crime. Huh. It would almost make you think that, you know,
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  far left crime policies and giving away free drugs doesn't make everybody safer.
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  So defamation charges may be levied against those who post security footage of their packages
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  being stolen. That just seems so well, completely insane, doesn't it.
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  But what is defamation in Canada is a tort action in which the plaintiff claims
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  that its reputation has been harmed. The defendant is accused of defaming the plaintiff
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  by spreading incorrect information. In Layman's terms, the plaintiff claims that the defendant
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  injured their reputation by spreading falsehoods about them. So if you show a video
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  of somebody walking onto your property and stealing from you, well you're not spreading
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  a falsehood, You're showing what they did. So I really don't get how
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  that's defamation. Says here, a total of twenty four percent of Canadian online
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  consumers reported experiencing the theft of one or more packages within the last year.
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  This figure increased to sixty six percent in the province of Ontario. But don't
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  forget, this is Trudeau's Canada, so you know there's going to be more
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  concern for the thieves than there is for you. Let's end this off with
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  a tweet from ezra levant here. It's twenty twenty four, so of course
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  the police care more about criminals than victims of crime. Anyway, that's all
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  next time.