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Martin Tampier

Martin Tampier is a freelance writer, blogger, and a professional engineer (consultant) by trade. Of German extraction, Martin came to Canada in 1999 and lives with his wife and son in Laval, QC.

Most Recent Articles by Martin Tampier:

Protecting transgender people from Bill C-16

Dear Prime Minster, The Liberal Party election platform made science-based policies a central element of its approach to governance. It now seems that some of the bills your government is pushing are in blatant contradiction to scientific knowledge.
- Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Canada's Bill C-16: Transgenderism and the Loss of Common Sense

Bill C-16 is intended to add the terms "gender identity" and "gender expression" to the Canadian Human Rights Act. The Bill also "amends the Criminal Code to extend the protection against hate propaganda set out in that Act to any section of the public that is distinguished by gender identity or expression," leading many to believe it will lead to a severe restriction of open public discourse on this topic once the bill is passed.
- Saturday, April 29, 2017

Now that assisted suicide is legal in Canada

Parliament felt last summer that it had to follow the Supreme Court's 2015 Carter vs. Canada decision by allowing Canadians access to assisted suicide. Although this feeling was incorrect, Parliament at least attempted to limit the applicability of the law by restricting it to the terminally ill and those approaching the end of their lives.
- Wednesday, January 11, 2017


China, Canada, the Olympics, and Human Rights

Canada will open its arms to athletes from over 80 nations. As Olympic hosts, we do not discriminate between countries whose governments do or do not share our values. And rightly so, many will say, for the Olympics are about sports and not about politics. Yet, this is only part of the truth. The Olympic Games always contain a strong political element. The decision of the IOC to hold the Games in Beijing in 2008 was clearly a political one. Holding the Games always includes the desire to bring different cultures and political convictions together, overcome diplomatic obstacles, and promote international harmony, peace, and human dignity.
- Friday, February 12, 2010

Why Canada Should Boycott the Beijing Olympics

In 2010, the world will get together in Vancouver-Whistler for the Olympic Winter Games. We will welcome them to an open society that appreciates different cultures and grants its citizens the freedoms that are so important to living with of dignity. Not so next year, at the Beijing Olympics. China has been, and still is today, a society that denies these rights and freedoms to its citizens. You may have heard about their killing prisoners to sell the organs to Western customers. Or their disregard of local residents in their rapid expansion of construction, industry and power generation projects.
- Tuesday, December 18, 2007

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