When Is A Security Officer Not A Security Officer?
By Ian Scott
This post follows right along with my last post critical of Governments attempting to “fix” and make prohibitions and bans.
Presently, in Ontario Canada, it is prohibited to call a security officer a “security officer.” Perhaps some of those bright eyed lawyers that become politicians ought to take a course in Semantics 101 as well as a bit of logic.
Now, the Province of Alberta is following suit with its Bill 10 - The Security Services And Investigators Act. Fines for calling yourself a “security officer” if you are a security officer are proposed to be up to $5,000.00 and/or a year in jail. Got that? A year in jail for calling yourself a security officer instead of using the term “security guard.”
Apparently some bimbos in Ontario and Alberta figure that you might get confused by a security officer calling himself a security officer. You might confuse that with “Police Officer.” I guess to some, the word police just sounds so much similar to security - two syllables in the word “police” being half that of the word security.
I wonder if they’ll be renaming Conservation Officers to Conservation Guards or something.
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