From Warren Kinsella’s musings for June 10, 2005:
Did you feel that tremor, yesterday morning? It was Canada changing under your feet. Without you, the voter, being asked first [by the judiciary] whether you approve.
He was talking about the health care ruling. Or was he talking about same-sex marriage?
Seems to me that some people are selective about which rulings are earthquakes that require approval and which ones are common sense that we must accept without substantive debate in Parliament or grassroots opposition.
Funny thing is, the health care argument is based on a right that does appear in the Charter (“security of the person”), while sexual orientation is not listed in the Charter as a basis for a charge of discrimination, nor is marriage listed as a right.
[Cross posted at Angry in the Great White North]
“Without you, the voter, being asked first (by the judiciary) whether you approve.”
…funny, I don’t remember being asked if we aprove of the Charter itself in the first place
dogmatict statists like Kinsella only cort the notions of democracy or universal charter rights when it meets their narrow partisan purposes.
Kinsella , like most machiavellian statists think the court is just one more federal institution which exists to be politically manipulated.
I love it when they make ( even rarely and begrudging)a decision based on the letter of the charter…..gets the frothy denizens of the “court party” all lathered up running wildly in hysterical panic….BTW, that sound you hear is more of Kinsella’s hair greying up and dropping to the floor as he realizes Canadian socialist statism has suffered another fatal wound as old line liberal utopianism crumbles before modern social and economic realities.
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The following is from Kinsella’s June 3 entry:
“Final round. Who said this:
“Hyp�o�crite: a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue.”
Give up? Well, that would be the Merriam-Webster dictionary folks. And, final question: who are the real hypocrites?
Awww…that one is too easy.”
Yes, indeed.
As part of a very large group of well-paid spin doctors for Jean Cretien, who gives a rat’s ass what Warren Kinsella has to say about ANYTHING?
Yes, exactly Dave. You do have a functioning memory. You have to feel sorry for Warren. He was a bright and fun guy at one time and then he got mixed up with the wrong crowd.
He could have opted out at some point and taken his winnings with him, but no, he bucked his sense of principle, had to stick in there for more than he will ever use.
People say he is witty and fun. I can’t even look. I’ll wait till he does the hard part. I’ll wait till he comes clean, ‘fesses up and sheds light where he knows we need light. 73s TG
If Canada is now aligning itself with the EU, wouldn’t it make sense that we hold a referendum on our Charter? Time to tweak it into something reflecting the 21st century. I don’t recall agreeing to allow terrorists unrestricted access and freedom to this country; nor did I agree to allow the rights of criminals to supercede those of their victims. The Charter was Trudeau’s vision, but as we all know, one man’s vision is another’s delusion/hallucination.