Rex Murphy: Trudeau Should Keep His Nose out of Our Neighbour’s Top Court Decisions

From the far reaches of Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali, the prime minister of Canada swiftly offered his response to a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. He was even more swift in reaction than some American politicians, to whom of course the decision has actual relevance. I know it is redundant and superfluous, and I have even said it before, but this point still deserves an underline. Almost every Canadian knows that the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court are not Canadian law. Know too that Canada has its own Supreme Court. It is only our prime minister who doesn’t seem to pay much attention to this key distinction. He was all over the same U.S. court when the matter of the June 24 decision on the extremely high-profile Roe v. Wade case was merely “leaked” a few weeks ago.-- More...