Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You're making it sound as if the Quebec situation regarding photographing people in public is a bad thing. dan c. At 07:26 PM 22-05-01 -0600, Tim Atherton wrote: >> >> I also wonder how it is that the National Assembly >> has not interfered with this situation yet to set the >> rules from Parliament rather than from the courts. >> > >because those Quebecois take after the crazy French and their Napoleonic >code and the National Assembly themselves chose to have a Right to Privacy >enshrined in their Charter of Rights. The Courts were merely enforcing what >was set there by the Assembly. I recall that the Supreme Courts dissenting >arguments basically made this point - but there was nothing they could do >about it... > >Tim A > >