Laurence Watts Ted Talk focused on the threats to human rights by political apathy and anti-terror legislation. “In Canada, the law has been used as the principal mechanism for improving the political and social position for minorities” (pg. 222) and Bill C-51 is using the law to dismantle that belief. Watt shows how the government is violating our charter rights and how the bill is a threat to Canada. The question I have to ask, is which charter rights is he talking about, well first, Laurence Watt focuses on that the bill itself is ominous which relates back to laws needing to be legible and understood by the public, and secondly, he touches on a violation of freedom of expression, as the bill allows the police to charge and detain people based on the information collected without due process for up to 7 days. This will allow for government organizations such as the police to continue to discriminate groups such as First Nations people, political descents, and environmental activists, and even more groups, as this bill gives almost full access to a person’s life, in the name of’ national security’, whatever that might mean. By discriminating against these groups, the government is relying on the formal social controls by “the explicit establishment of procedures and the delegation of specific bodies to enforce them” (pg. 144) by them the textbook is relating back to discriminatory laws.
Political Apathy is significant in this situation as it is one of the things that has been threatening our responsibility to our own lives. Laurence Watt explains that by the…
