Police target and fine Rebel reporter after questioning Trudeau at Liberal retreat!
Rebel News journalist Alexa Lavoie was stopped by police on Monday while covering the Liberal Party retreat. The incident appeared to be a blatant abuse of power aimed at identifying and punishing her for doing independent journalism and holding powerful L...
Jesus, even Canada's criminal penalties have gay names. I guess Gryffindor won't win the house trophy this year after getting those demerit points.
Demerit points have to do with your driver's license and auto insurance. Basically if you accrue enough of them, they will take away your driver's license and possible make you go through the whole process to re-obtain it, and with enough of them you can also become uninsurable which means you need to get on the extremely expensive public insurance plan.
But she was a passenger. How would they assign her demerit points if she didn't happen to have a license?
Because Canada.
"Congratulations on your pending obstruction/interfering with a peace officer charge for pointing out that fallacy buddy!" - Pigs
They wouldn't. Likewise for someone cycling and breaking traffic law: If they don't have a license, no additional penalty beyond the cycling laws ones, but if they do have a drivers' license, they're demerited because, in theory, they should know better since they had to pass the law portion of the drivers test exam.
Or in other words, ignorance of the law is no excuse, but knowledge of the law is worth extra punishment.
It's called a "retreat" because they're all running scared of the upcoming election and are trying to burn through as much government money as possible before that point.
Remember. Dead cops can't violate rights.