To imply Glenn Joyal is a threat to Canadians’ rights is pure demagoguery. It makes ‘Why do you hate the troops?’ sound like something out of Plato’s Republic
In recent weeks, former deputy prime minister Sheila Copps’ Twitter account has operated as a sort of museum of partisan excess. On Monday evening, hours after Manitoba Chief Justice Glenn D. Joyal got dragged into the mess for no good reason — pending further excavations — she finally hit rock bottom.
Former AG decries release of CONFIDENTIAL discussions re. Trudeau’s refusal to support her recommendation of a homophonic, anti-abortion, anti-Charter Chief Justice. Who released CONFIDENTIAL details of her discussion with the PM 7 weeks ago? In that speech, he soberly explains his entirely mainstream concerns that Canadian courts have over the years progressively asserted a policy-making dominance over the legislatures that the Charter’s framers had never intended, and with some deleterious effects to the country’s “political culture.” Perhaps Trudeau might also have come across Joyal’s 1993 Master’s thesis from the University of Manitoba, in which he makes similar arguments and analyzes R v. Morgentaler, among other cases.
Many Canadians seem to truly believe that Margaret Atwood’s Gilead is but one misplaced ballot and one moderately conservative judge away
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