fistful of sparklers.

Harper bans pre-op and non-op trans* people from flying under new law

blownspeakers:

rumours:

THIS IS BULLSHIT

robotsinriotgear:

etiquette-etc:

mmmajestic:

boobsanderson:

Sec 5.2(1)(c) of the ID screening regs of Aeronautics Act: “An air carrier shall not transport a passenger if the passenger does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents.”

OHHHHHHHH, THIS IS FUCKING RICH

this makes my blood boil. sign the petition!

Are you fucking kidding me with this? Harper is making me hate being Canadian.

Not to say that this shouldn’t be corrected, but the new section of the Aeronautics Act seems to be intended to expand on what’s been in the act since 2007 (when there was a Tory minority), where determining if someone was on the no fly list was based on “his or her name, date of birth and gender”. <— language that’s already problematic

Again, obviously, this part of the act needs to be re-worded, but to suggest that part of Fuhrer Harper’s super-evil-anti-everything-good-in-the-world agenda (TM) is to micromanage the wording of the Aeronautics Act to specifically target pre/non-op trans people is borderline insane. The PMO doesn’t send out directives about what the exact wording of an act should be and even if they did (and, I suppose, they could if they really wanted), you would have to believe that Harper and his team are complete morons if this is how they’d advance their agenda. And not in the “these morons want to strip away the rights of minorities” way, in the “umm… how’d that guy get elected to the Legislature? He’s having trouble doing up his velcro shoes” way.

There’s this scene in the Simpsons where Mr. Burns is sitting around a table with his underlings and asks them to report about “what evil thing (they) did today”. And stuff like this (see also: some of responses to that crown prosecutor advancing the invalid marriage argument last week) makes me think that people legitimately believe that’s what’s going on in the Tory cabinet. And, like, I fucking hate the Conservatives, but that is lunacy. Someone ask to check his birth certificate next or something.

Good on someone for catching this before some border services drone caused a real life problem for someone, but to take this and then suggest that it’s proof of the “Harper Agenda” undermines the legitimate criticisms of the current government.

Quinn makes a valid point…but this wording is still fucked and could potentially create a lot of problems for trans people, and should be changed. Everyone sign the petition! I know that I’ve been bugging you all to send letters and sign shit lately, but, humour me, guys, they’re important!

Canada Is About To Pass Sopa’s Evil Little Brother. Politely.

tysonelder:

livelaughawesome:

“I’m a Canadian.

We’re a quiet bunch; prone to enjoying hockey, drinking stronger beer than our friends south of the border, and lovers of fries smothered in cheese curds and gravy.

We also, apparently, have an inferiority complex when it comes to being evil dirt bags, because we’ve decided to pass our very own version of SOPA up here.

Only better*

Meet Bill-C11. Formerly Bill C-32. (I think they thought if they made the number lower people would care less about it?)

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But, as innocuous as it sounds, C-11 does a whole lot that SOPA did with a few extra twists you might not find in the Wikipedia write-up.

Like your PVR? You can’t keep it under C-11.

Like ripping CDs to your iPod? Say bye-bye.

Hey, do you want to be able to unlock your $500 smartphone and take it to a provider less dedicated to violating your wallet? That won’t be allowed either.

Did you get accused of internet piracy but no evidence has been presented and a trial date hasn’t even been set? Under C-11 your ISP will now be forced to terminate your internet access.

And people say that governments can’t be bought.

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There are only 14 days left people. Get active.”

Send a letter to your Member of Parliament now. The letters are prewritten, you just need to click send.

http://www.ccer.ca/letter-wizard-enter/

Come on non-Canadian people, please signal boost this for your Canadian friends.

I find it irritating that “we” cared so much about SOPA, but are so apathetic to stop something from happening in our own country. Get off your duff, Canada!

I just want the government to stop trying to ruin the Internet.

(via tank-commander)