CMN 3105 Lecture 6: Week 6 Oct 18

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3105
• Professor: Mark Lowes

Document Summary

Committee argued that a government operated airport is a public resource so access to the public spaces ought to be treated as a public asset. Expressive activity of handing out is protected under the charter as they convey political meaning (form of protected expression) At the international airport in montreal (lobby off to side) handing out pamphlets - banned from doing so, barred and removed. Argued that their right to freedom of expression had been infringed upon by the airport manager by forcing them to leave. Gov"t failed to save the legislation because there was no law that was used as the basis for the airport manager to request their removal from the airport. Failed the prescribed by law aspect of "prescribed by law" Authority he was relying on was not a law, but a government directive. A government directive or policy is not a law enacted by parliament. Pamphleteering as a means to engage in communication of ideas.