Comments on: Industry Canada needs to fine Port Hardy Secondary School

By: PHSS STUDENT

PHSS STUDENT — Sun, 24 May 2009 23:14:10 +0000

Its funny how mr.grey said he didnt know it was illegal, but all that a few students did was easily search it up on the internet and find out,
when we had our protest, we gave out papers containing all the info about jammers and how there illegal in canada, and the principles took them away? HMMMM…
also even after knowing they were illegal, he still kept it on, and was refusing to turn it off until we all returned to class.
Principle kept the cell phone jammer, a secret didnt let anyone know about it, he payed 100$ or more for it, from our school money, which couldve been used on better things like equipment, new computers for the library, PAPER TOWEL IN THE BATHROOMS?
port hardy secondary school is slowly detoriating, and we have barely any courses to choose from, and the ones we have aren’t gonna help us that much. I just want people to open there eyes, and like come down and see how low our school is. THIS SCHOOL NEEDS MAJOR CHANGES, BETTER PRINCIPLES,

By: raino

raino — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:38:46 +0000

yeah. why is that anyhow, that the kids couldn’t just do what they’re told and not use their phones?

By: gordon

gordon — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:38:24 +0000

There are some licensed applications of cell phone jammers in Canada. Police forces dealing with hostage situations are sometimes licensed to use a jammer to isolate the bad guys.

The “without lawful excuse” is there to cover unforeseen situations — basically giving Industry Canada and the courts some discretion when it’s appropriate, but unlicensed.

The principal’s application is almost certainly not a “lawful excuse”.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:32:11 +0000

The wording there is very important: “without lawful excuse”, which means to me that there could be lawful reasons for doing what was done – which in turn means that it’s not illegal to operate the jammer.

The problem here is “without lawful excuse”. I doubt the authorities would buy his excuse of “I just want students to pay more attention”.

I’ll bet as well this won’t be the last time you’ll hear of situations like this.

By: gordon

gordon — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:57:47 +0000

Absolutely! I don’t believe there’s anything in the Act that says you can’t do that.

In the picture on the PHSS website, it looks like the school is partially clad in corrugated metal siding, so they’re party there already.

By: Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:41:54 +0000

He could have the whole school covered in grounded copper mesh though…