Elections Alberta has obtained a court injunction that will force an Alberta separatist group to pull down an electoral list detailing the personal information of millions of Alberta voters.
The agency appeared in Edmonton court Thursday morning to ask Court of King’s Bench Justice John Little for a temporary injunction against a pro-independence group. CBC News is not naming the group until the registry is removed from public access to protect the privacy of the people whose information was shared.
The temporary injunction was granted after a brief court hearing attended by Elections Alberta senior officials.
Classic “its a threat” move by the far right stooges
Fucking hell. Throw them in jail for doing that.
Their excuse was “this is basically public info, anyways, like the phone book”. Yeah. People could request removal from the phone book in case they had an abusive former spouse, or stalker, or they were in hiding from something. You can’t legally not be on the voter rolls.
This is so unbelievably typical from the far-right: “Doing this wouldn’t be a problem for me, so it couldn’t be a problem for anyone else.”
I’m nearly the fucking pinnacle of privilege (white, male, cis, het, relatively upper-class, middle-aged) and I see how dangerous this move could be. It’s nearly impossible to believe that any group of people could be this stupid, but I keep having to learn that lesson again and again.
They’re not stupid, and it’s dangerous to think that they are. They’re testing the boundaries, seeing what they can get away with, desensitizing for the worse things they have planned.
The people at the top are smart. The people they are manipulating are stupid.
I’m begging everyone who reads this to understand: it is here, now. This is a major escalation of MAGA’s war with Canada. I really hope we’re not going to sleepwalk into the same situation as America. We need to start flooding the Prime Minister’s office to push for an immediate and full investigation.
