- cross-posted to:
- ontario
- canadapolitics
- cross-posted to:
- ontario
- canadapolitics
BACKGROUND
Joanna Berry is a Canadian immigration and refugee lawyer in Ontario, Canada. On October 2, two Niagara Police Officers, one of them a sergeant detective, paid her a visit to her home. They told her they were there on behalf of the Ottawa Police Department because of her “personal social media.” They begin to tell her that “10 lawyers who are of the Jewish faith” have filed a complaint with the police about her social media. As you can tell from the video, Joanna Berry, is outraged by the visit and clearly distraught. I reached out to the Niagara Regional Police for comment but they did not respond to my inquiry. I spoke with Joanna Berry also and she gave OTL Media permission to publish the video. She told us that she wants Canadians to see it and for the video to be a warning.
“This is very Orwellian”
On The Line Media is run by Samira Mohyeddin, a multi-award-winning journalist, documentary maker, and producer at CBC Radio One’s The Current.
It’s not a false impression because that is exactly what happened here … it isn’t the government that is monitoring all this crap and knocking on people’s doors … and I never said that was the case … but there are bad actors within these institutions that decided somewhere along the line to think that - someone said something we disagree with, we should send the police to intimidate them.
If you don’t like what is said online, you disagree with a message, you complain to the person, you complain to the site owner, you complain to the media owner, … you keep escalating your complaint to another higher authority … you don’t launch the nuclear option and get the police to tell someone about your complaint right from the start.