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The Canadian legal system follows International Law. It is not the historical laws of the British Crown or those made by the Government of Canada that dictate SCC decisions.

There are consequences to the signing of UN agreements to follow International Law.

A clear understanding of why and how decisions made by International courts impact the lives of Canadians needs to take place..

Just saying! Wake the F*** up

As an aside, I wonder what issue it would actually take for a supposed conservative government to use the Notwithstanding Clause.

Couple of points: this is the BC supreme court, a provincial court, not the Supreme Court of Canada. The suit and award is $50,000 because, under Canadian court system, NO DISCOVERY is required as a prelude to trial, meaning the neither party has to give up much prior to trial, and defendent is denied access to info they would otherwise get through the discovery process. Def suits actual injury needs to be proved.

Why did the reporter(s) not have recordings of interviews or e-mails to produce in their defence? My daughter keeps recordings on file of people she has interviewed for her school Website. E-mails, too. She's thirteen and manages to understand the concept. This would seem to be a basic requirement in the trade? A media organization will always lose a game of 'he said, she said' in a courtroom.

Not to say I'm a fan of Weaver, but I'm surprised that the Post got painted into a corner like this.

That decision is remarkable, but I guess we shouldn't really be surprised anymore. It's become obvious that left's long march through our institutions now includes law schools and the judiciary.

The guy's an obvious environmental activist and Green Party candidate - a very public figure. I guess we can expect even more of these SLAPP suits now.

Ok, that post of mine go garbled due to some html code I used:

"Couple of points: this is the BC supreme court, a provincial court, not the Supreme Court of Canada. The suit and award is $50,000 because, under Canadian court system, NO DISCOVERY process is required as a prelude to trial for def suits less than $50k, meaning that neither party has to give up much prior to trial, and the defendant may be denied access to evidence they would otherwise get through the discovery process, and may not come out in trial. Def suits less the $50K in Canada are essentially lawfare. In def cases in Canada, no actual injury needs to be proved."

In view of this decision, my continued use of a Nom De Plume and deliberate removal of names, dates etc. from blog posts is looking positively prescient.

As of right now, I think I'm going to also remove any sort of allusions to physicality as well. No more "hippy punching is never wrong", as I'm sure the humorless minions of the law will use it against me.

Pointing and laughing are not yet illegal, so I'll keep doing that for now.

The Powers That Be are very, very determined to make all of us shut the hell up. Each of us should look into our hearts and decide just what level of BS we are willing to endure.

"The reality is the combination and cumulative effect of these articles is such as to adversely impact on Dr. Weaver's reputation and integrity as a scientist," wrote the judge.

Except Weaver ain't a scientist. He gave that up to become a politician.

And I don't need a newspaper article to tell me that all politicians are "deceitful" and "avaricious."

"Reputation and integrity as a scientist" do not confer automatically upon accepting a job as a "scientist", nor does it come with an award of a degree. It has to be earned. However, sins of the employer equally do not confer upon all the employees either, which is where a court case over defamation can go off the rails...

So falsely passing yourself off as a Nobel Prize winner doesn't count as being dishonest I guess.

"Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew and dog will have his day."

Shakespeare's Hamlet

Makes me feel sick to my stomach. I am no fan of the Progressive Post, but anyone who has followed Mr Weaver and his public pronouncements on AGW understand this man is a scientist in name only. He is an activist first and foremost. As is it would appear, judge Emily Burke.

Everything you need to know about the relevance of the Winnipeg Worker's Daily lies in the fact that the article that Kate linked to has, as of this posting, a grand total of 3 comments, while Kate's post linking to it has 13.

Andrew Weaver has been a 'public figure' for many years; the go to guy for a sound bite about AGW. It is beyond me how this case got to the BC supreme court.

And this is why I "lose" jury duty notices.
System is gamed for the liars, not gonna waste my time.

If I wanted to read a bunch of commie bullshit ... a good head-start would be steal Weaver's computer. This guy wraps the pin on the kook-o-meter.

In the legal system, demonstrating that an individual has published false data makes them lose their case. That's all it takes to destroy these moonbats. What kind of lawyer morons did the NP hire? All they would need is to get some people like Steve McIntyre as witnesses and this moonbats "research" would be shown to the world as a steaming pile of BS, just without any fertilizer value.

Interesting that Mann has dropped his similar SLAP suit against Tim Ball as Dr. Ball wisely requested all of the data that moronic Mann used for his fatally flawed research. These moonbats wouldn't survive a microsecond under scrutiny by intelligent individuals such as McIntyre and Ball, yet the NP chose not to take this root.

It may be that the innumeracy of lawyers makes it unlikely that the judge would understand the logic; if this is the case, then it's time to make a knowledge of fundamental calculus, trigonometry and logic a requirement for lawyers to continue practicing law.

Oops, shouldn't post when pissed off: last word of paragraph2 = "route"

Sorry, after the sex scandal involving Lori Douglas (google it), I think there'd be nothing wrong with the National Post telling this dumb bag to go fap herself...

On this case, is the Supreme Court of BC the final authority, or can it be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada?

As far as I know, the Supreme Court of British Columbia is a court of original jurisdiction (trial court), below the Court of Appeal of British Columbia. It is similar in rank to the Court of Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan or the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario.

Loki, are you sure Mann dropped the suit against Ball. I ask because if so this is news. I understood that he was refusing to produce discovery which dooms his case eventually but that it was still on file.

The BCSC is a Court of original jurisdiction and it's decisions can be appealed the the BC Court of Appeal. Given the decision and reasons in Weaver I hope the NP goes to appeal. Opinion is not defamation. (But note that the Sullivan public figure defense is not available in Canada - a public interest defence is.)