As an OPP constable, Gabriel Proulx has sworn to uphold the laws of the province and the country.
But now facing charges of discreditable conduct for his actions in defying COVID protocols, the Belleville-based police officer is arguing some of those laws don’t apply to him.
Proulx is fighting the Police Services Act charges laid against him by employing a debunked, court-clogging and often self-destructive legal strategy that’s rising in popularity alongside a growing wave of COVID disinformation and anti-government rage.
It’s called Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments, or “legal gibberish,” as some judges describe it.
