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dewlineI don't know quite whom to thank or blame for raising this one. By right of lack of expertise on the subject, I should be passing this one on to Law and the Multiverse. This might not be entirely fair to the authors of that weblog, seeing as their primary expertise is in American law.
So...
So. Alpha Flight's been revived again, with story by Fred Van Lente and Greg Pak, pencils - and Canadian-related plot advice - by Dale Eaglesham.
Cutting to the chase:
James "Mac" Hudson AKA Guardian I is interrupted by "H" Director Brown to discuss a pending address to the nation by the new PM, and in the midst of the discussion, happens to drop this little item:
Now I've started digging through the Constitution Act of 1982, the National Defence Act and eventually will likely start scanning the Public Service Act and/or the British North America Act of 1867(the forerunner of the modern Constitution Act), hoping to find something already on the books of real-world Canadian statutory law to confirm a theory of mine: given Alpha Flight and their backers in "Department H" are officially linked to the Department of National Defence, there might be a prohibition against civilian DND employees participating in any way in election campaigns beyond lawn signs, campaign contributions and the like.
Not having much luck so far.
I know there's a code of conduct requiring other federal civil servants outside of DND and the armed forces to take leaves of absence to participate in any election campaign from municipal to federal level.
Anyone want to speak to this?
So...
So. Alpha Flight's been revived again, with story by Fred Van Lente and Greg Pak, pencils - and Canadian-related plot advice - by Dale Eaglesham.
Cutting to the chase:
James "Mac" Hudson AKA Guardian I is interrupted by "H" Director Brown to discuss a pending address to the nation by the new PM, and in the midst of the discussion, happens to drop this little item:
"...Alpha Flight members are constitutionally prohibited from electioneering."
Now I've started digging through the Constitution Act of 1982, the National Defence Act and eventually will likely start scanning the Public Service Act and/or the British North America Act of 1867(the forerunner of the modern Constitution Act), hoping to find something already on the books of real-world Canadian statutory law to confirm a theory of mine: given Alpha Flight and their backers in "Department H" are officially linked to the Department of National Defence, there might be a prohibition against civilian DND employees participating in any way in election campaigns beyond lawn signs, campaign contributions and the like.
Not having much luck so far.
I know there's a code of conduct requiring other federal civil servants outside of DND and the armed forces to take leaves of absence to participate in any election campaign from municipal to federal level.
Anyone want to speak to this?
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Date: 2011-06-18 01:43 am (UTC)However, since Trudeau was in the process of disbanding the team around the same time he was repatriating the constitution, he probably stuck something in there.
Okay, assuming the Trudeau connection for a moment...
Date: 2011-06-18 02:08 am (UTC)If he was shutting "H" down for budgetary reasons as stated, what would the point of such a constitutional amendment have been?
No. If we're assuming something "Earth-616"-specific, then the timeframe in which to set up such an amendment would've been at the tail end of Nicieza's "Building Blocks" arc in v.1, after Mac's first resurrection.
Although at whose insistence? Ottawa or one/more of the provinces(and which provinces)?