Sometimes you don't want to be anywhere near legal writing, and sometimes it leaps off the page. The decision in this Alberta Court of Appeal case falls into the latter category; it is a detailed and incisive examination of why Alberta's privacy legislation is unconstitutional. Strickly read, it would have prohibited a union from taking video of people crossing a picket line. This sort of public recording of public action is becoming increasingly commonplace (I had a conversation recently with the RCMP about photographing a person who had parked in front of my driveway). Prohibiting this sort of expression, the court ruled, violates our constitutional rights (and you can't fix the act by reinterpreting 'journalism' or 'public' or any of the other exceptions allowed in the existing act). Thanks to Michael Geist for the reference.
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