67 Replies to “Marshall Rothstein”

  1. “So, I don’t see anyone answering my question. Is Rothstein Jewish?”
    i believe he is. i’m surprised it took this long for the jew issue to be raised. normally we control things in a more clandestine fashion, like the banks and the media.
    unfortunately, irwin cotler missed the meeting when we were discussing the short list for the nominees. we’ve agreed that he won’t be getting any blood in his matzoh this passover.

  3. GM, you are also skewing facts.
    Excuse me but Corneil-Binnie was born, bred and educated IN QUEBEC. Anyone born raised and educated in Quebec is a Quebecer through and through. They are ALL positively fanatical about their allegiance to Quebec, be they English or French. Quebec first, Canada second, always. That’s just my point. I don’t care if he represents Ontario- means nothing to me because his heart is likely with Quebec.
    The whole damm selection process is hypocritical. The USA has a more transparent system. Believe me, the Americans ALL know the ethnic origins of their judges; as a result there is more balanced representation.
    What if the ethnic makeup of the Court was different, say four and a half anglo/saxon/celt judges and three German judges, instead of what it now appears to be, four and maybe a half French judges and maybe three Jewish Judges (if Rothstein is Jewish) and only one and maybe a half French judges? EVERYBODY IN THE COUNTRY WOULD BE SCREAMING THAT THE COURT WAS BIASED.
    And the very fact that status of the English people of Quebec is now nearly tragic speaks volumes about the complete failure of the Federal government AND the Supreme Court, in spite of the notwithstanding clauses. Let’s hope they all do the right thing now that we see French racist behaviour spilling over into Eastern Ontario. Truthfully, I also blame the Canadian media which is almost ALL French/Jewish owned or controlled for increasing reverse racism in Ontario. So don’t tell me that knowing the ethnic origins of the people in control of everything in Canada is not important. Clearly, when French speaking clinics in Ontario are now turning away English sick people, believe me, the ethnic origins of the people running Canada is an issue.

  4. dddkinnear,
    that’s it. i’m sending a couple of my mossad buddies over there to circumcise you. don’t worry, you won’t feel a thing and they’ll even bring some bagels lox and cream cheese.
    to complete your indoctrination you will be tied up and your eyes will be wired open as you’re forced to watch yentl on a continuous loop all weekend.

  5. 1) please explain to me what the actions of that clinic have to do with the supreme court; there have been no court proceedings related to it yet.
    2)What, exactly, would you have the supreme court do about quebec language laws? Invalidate the notwidstanding clause? (which, of course, they can’t do)
    3) what makes you think that jewish judges wouldn’t be sympathetic to anglophone rights? Last I checked, most Quebec Jews are also anglophones. Morris Fish, for example, is an english-speaking Quebecer who is known to be something of a libertarian on minority rights.
    4)I agree that the American system of selecting judges is better, although their court is hardly more diverse than ours. (with the obvious exception that we don’t have any black judges on ours)
    5)If you think Mr. Rothstein is a bad judge, or is undeserving of a court appointment, I’d like to hear the reasons. His faith shouldn’t enter into it.
    6) The plight of Quebec Anglophones is well-documented and I agree that something should be done about it. I just think you’re looking to the wrong forum for it if you think the makeup of the supreme court is a good place to start.

  6. Allen:
    Your buddies will have a hard time finding my pXXXs. Last time I checked I was still a girl. But anyway, I will stand up for the English people of Quebec and English people of Canada until I don’t think it is any longer necessary, or until we’ve all been wiped out of Canada, and I don’t like being called a racist for doing it. I don’t like the composition of the Court. I’m worried, even though they did rule in favour of anglophones in New Brunswick recently.

  7. And just one more little note GM and Allen:
    I don’t think you truly know how bad it is for English people in Quebec. In the little town I lived in, the acestral home of my son’s paternal relatives, do you know what they do when their English kids have an accident? They drive all the way to Ontario. They are so afraid of what the French doctors might do to their kids. Until you see it first hand you just don’t know how bad it really is. I was raised in Ontario, and was just so shocked, first, to see how bad it really is in Quebec, (now spilling over into Ontario, etc.) and second to see the damm media ignore this gigantic Canadian tragedy.

  8. i was born and raised in montreal. i now live in toronto. notwithstanding the fact that you don’t consider jews “english”, i am an anglophone. while growing up in montreal was trying at times, it had more to do with being jewish than english speaking.
    your comments about french doctors are ludicrous. besides there are many jewish doctors there as well but i guess you wouldn’t want them touching your kids either.

  9. I don’t deny that the treatment of Quebec anglophones in the past 30 years has been shameful.
    When lawmakers in quebec constantly assert that quebec is an exclusively french province, or that everyone in the province MUST know how to speak french, it amounts to at least an outright denial of reality, or at worst a mild, non-violent form of ethnic cleansing. Quebec is the only province I know of where it is a stated government policy to alter the ethnic/linguistic makeup of the population in a specific way. I consider Bill 101 to be linguistic apartheid.
    But that said, what, exactly, does this have to do with Mr. Rothstein’s religion, or the number of jews on the supreme court?

  10. Do you actually read when you read? I said I lived in a small town/village. No Jewish doctors anywhere. Montreal is not a small town. You skew everything, and my comments about French doctors are not ludicrous, especially when you consider the shocking treatment of the English woman at the French clinic in Ontario…that’s well documented and in the news. Just my point, an issue is only an issue when it effects you directly; stop using the racist card every time someone says something you disagree with. Over and out.

  11. I’m getting all kinds of search hits at my blog from Canada and the USA using various permutations of “Marshall Rothstein Jew Jewish Supreme Court” and I – put that race card down, Allen – can’t be the only one. Combined with the highly anomalous fact that bloggers and the media seems to want to go on record as being for or against this pick, the circumstances are exceedingly unusual, to say the least.
    The irony is this: in the wake of the Mohammed Cartoon controversy, an issue – don’t press that submit button yet, Allen, you’ll look like an idiot for flinging another fake antisemitism charge – whereby free speech is being surpressed in the name of not offending an ethnic community, it appears that bloggers and the media are reluctant to praise or criticize Rothstein…for fear of offending an ethnic community. Please note that pointing all of this out does not automagically make me a *-ist.

  12. OK Allen:
    I am going to try just this one last time to state clearly why I have problems with the ethnic backgrounds of the new Supreme Court. Clearly from your comments you don’t understand, as a Jew, just how difficult it is to be an anglo/saxon/celt in Quebec. I know lots of Jewish people, worked for Jews for ten years, and I am going to be painfully honest here; so many of you just don’t understand how deeply many French people hate ANGLO/SAXON/CELTIC people, and furthermore, I don’t think many Jewish people care. So three Jewish judges combined with four and maybe a half French judges leaves me feeling more than just a little concerned. You are NOT ANGLO/SAXON/CELT, and I doubt if any French people have any historic hatred of Jews, so how can you feel what we feel in Quebec? For God’s sake, after what Jews went through I would think you, of all people, would understand what I am trying to say here. Why don’t you get it?
    And the only reason so few people haven’t questioned the ethnic demographics of the new court is because NO ONE KNOWS. The media doesn’t make a point of telling anyone, whereas in the USA it’s upfront and center. The only reason I started to question things was because I did massive research after I pulled that evil history book out of my son’s class in Quebec that was laced with pure hatred against English people. I’m talking English people, and I mean anglo/saxon/celts, not Anglos. The entire Canadian media, which, I found out through research is almost entirely French/Jewish controlled, refused to address the book or any other serious English issue in Quebec. And the hateful cartoons in my son’s history book were no less serious than the cartoons in Denmark, yet they get LOTS Canadian media attention. Yet, racist cartoons right here in Canada, against OUR OWN PEOPLE, gets absolutely zero attention from the media. Get real.
    We have no voice, no power in a country where we form the largest ethnic group. So I started doing research to find out why, and I came up with some facts that trouble me. I know about the notwithstanding clause limiting the Court’s power, but I also know about the powerful Jewish lobby to get their people into both the Senate and the Court. It’s all over the damm Internet. Come on, are they lobbying so that they can stand up for the English people of Quebec? I seriously doubt it.

  13. Sorry, correct last post:
    And the only reason so few people haven’t..
    to read
    And the only reason so few people have…

  14. ddd,
    you should get back on those meds. the language laws in quebec are certainly draconian but they survived because of the province invoking the notwithstanding clause after they were stuck down as unconstitutional by the supreme court. blame trudeau.
    if the french hate the “english” maybe it’s because their majority population was treated as second class until the quiet revolution.
    anonalogue,
    i didn’t raise race or pull the card out. i was responding to ms “english” and her posts that were self-evidently prejudicial. i’m not surprised you missed that because your keen skills of critical analysis were clearly displayed by your inability to infer that the rothstein 7 point plan was a joke.
    as far as a dearth of commentary on his appointment goes, it’s because it’s a done deal, nobody has ever heard of him and nobody cares.
    come on guys, lighten up. with 3 jews on the court we won’t have to worry about sharia. but you’d better stock up on your back bacon.

  15. ALLEN: Stop pulling statements out of a hat without backing them up. Your latest pisses me off.
    “if the french hate the “english” maybe it’s because their majority population was treated as second class until the quiet revolution”
    The French were always the massive majority in Quebec, always had their own legal system, and always had the right to vote. They were the best treated defeated people in the history of the world. You know, some people refer to the so-called ‘quiet revolution’ the beginning of the ‘ethnic cleansing movement’ which is alluded to by at least one other person on this post alone. One person’s revolution is another person’s ‘ethnic cleansing’. It all depends on which side you are on…the persecuted or the persecuter. Again, as a Jew, you should already know that. Damm, you’re biased.
    The real problem in Quebec has always been the fact that in order to be economically competitive, they would have to accept the English language, as they are surrounded by it. And they still refuse to do so, even when given the opportunity to have massive funding to also preserve French. They were never second class, they just didn’t realize that in order to compete they had to learn English, and the same holds true even today. Just look at them. Without massive funding from we evil “English” people in the rest of Canada they would fall flat on their face. Nothing has changed since the so-called ‘quiet revolution’ except for the fact that they got rid of the ‘evil’ Hanglish. In fact, they are now worse off than they were before, economically speaking. Don’t you remember when the financial powerhouse of the country was Montreal? Those were back in the days when there were English people in Quebec, always a definite minority, and long BEFORE we had to start forking over billions of dollars annually to keep Quebec afloat.
    Anyway, I’m off this topic, gotta send my ‘file’ to at least another 100,000 “English” people. So you won’t hear from me for some time, and I’m talking months here. This blogging sxxt is a waste of time. I get better results just sending my nasty little file around. You’ve all given me some juicy material for my file though.
    Ciao

  16. ,,,again, try to find…”Bi-lingual Today, French Tomorrow”…J. V. Andrews…I’ve got a photocopy for those who can’t find the original book in our ‘public’ library system…

  17. Anonalogue: re: your wondering if there will ever be true conservatives on the bench. I think not, that is, until we start to appoint non-lawyers. Should it be necessary to be a lawyer? I have only quite recently finally understood how left-lib lawyers are — they really are. But it makes sense if you think about it. They benefit tremendously from activist government which by definition is statist/lib-left. Lawyers are natural intervenors, because somewhere along the line (possibly in 1st year law school) they get the idea that they know everything about everything — a necessary mindset for statists.

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