by Klaus Rohrich
September 2, 2004
The recent appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada of Madame Justice Rosalie abella and Madame Justice Louise Charron is a clear indicator that the 1960s and all the crackpot ideas that originated in that decade have now become mainstream. For those who do not recall the 60s, it was the decade that saw the "baby boomers" come of age and it can best be characterized by the imperative "question everything".
The questioning of everything seemed like a good idea at the time, trouble is, a lot of really whacko ideas found their way into the body politic. Let’s review some of the decisions these two judges have made over the years.
Madame Justice Rosalie abella has issued some of the more bizarre rulings when she was a justice on the Ontario Court of appeals. Two of these concern family law, that had they not been overturned by the Supreme Court of Canada would have turned all men in this country into virtual wallets that former spouses could suck dry. The first case had to do with the issue of support payments, on which the honorable Madame Justice ruled that they could only ever be deemed too low, never too high. The second ruling decreed that no divorce was ever final, meaning that at any point in the future a woman could come back for MORE MONEY from her former spouse.
In addition to these rulings, Madame Justice abella is heavily committed to hiring quotas both in the public as well as the private sector.
Not to be outdone, Madame Justice Charron has some pretty wonky rulings to her credit as well. among these are that aboriginals had the right to sue the federal government because the residential schools provided to them "intentionally eradicated their culture". Damned if you do; damned if you don’t. You provide a school for aboriginals and you’re destroying their culture. You don’t provide a school and you’re oppressing them with ignorance.
She was also the justice who ruled the nation’s marijuana laws unconstitutional because when they were written they did not take into account the possible alleviation of symptoms that certain ill people gained from using the drug medicinally.
Both justices are left-leaning activists who are more inclined to write new laws than interpret the existing ones and their presence on the Supreme Court will ensure that the next decade or two will see some really bizarre new interpretations of the laws of Canada.
The selection of these judges for service on the Supreme Court is just another step in the methodical destruction of everything traditional in Canada. While on the one hand we enact laws to protect "Canadian culture", on the other hand we flush bushels of it down the toilet almost daily.
The damage that the philosophies developed in the 1960s has caused is readily apparent everywhere. We have zero tolerance for violence at school, yet more kids are killing and maiming each other than ever before.
Our educators seem to feel that it’s less important to be proficient in any given area of endeavour than it is to have "self esteem". They seem to dispense it at school like a tonic and they’re producing morons in the process. For some reason our 1960s steeped educators feel that self-esteem isn’t something that comes from within as a result of achieving a goal after working hard. Why do you think there are so many ugly, pierced, tattooed, stupid and flabby young women with bellies and attitude hanging out at the mall?
Given the presence of these two new justices on the Supreme Court, I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility for the court to discover that the founders of the Constitution had intended a diploma or degree to be a basic human right, which all schools must award their students regardless of their proficiency. Or that wealthy individuals were intended under human rights legislation to "share" their wealth with those less well off.
I’m concerned that the same judge who had her crackpot rulings overturned by the Supreme Court is now sitting on that court interpreting the law as she sees it.
at age 53 and 57, respectively, Justice Charron and Justice abella will be on the court for a long time. What other really whacko ideas from the 1960s will come to the fore over the next to or three decades, Workplace quotas? Employment equity? a woman’s right to kill her baby, because it is inconvenient? Sorry, I forgot. Some of these are already the law of the land.