Judge overturns doctor's will - Would have granted scholarships only to white, heterosexual students

National Post ^ | Feb. 22, 2016 | Tom Blackwell

[rickmichaels]

An Ontario judge has struck down a deceased doctor’s attempt to set up university scholarships exclusively for white, single and heterosexual students, ruling the unusual stipulations clash with “public policy.”

Dr. Victor Priebe’s trustee should ignore the discriminatory directions his will set out for the proposed bursary, said the Superior Court of Justice decision.

“Although it is not expressly stated by Dr. Priebe that he subscribed to white supremacist, homophobic and misogynistic views … (the will’s statements) leave no doubt as to Dr. Priebe’s views,” said Justice Alissa Mitchell.

Her decision invoked a little-known legal principle - stemming from an 80-year-old Supreme Court of Canada judgment - that allows courts to quash people’s final wishes if they clearly offend the interests of the state.

[MarvinStinson]

Lefty clone robot “brains.”

[G Larry]

How is it that courts are able to define “offensive”, but not:

pornography,
when life begins,
vegetative state,
marriage,
when sex ed classes go too far,

?????

[DiogenesLamp]

Judge overturns doctor's will - Would have granted scholarships only to white, heterosexual students

Because it's okay to impose morality, just so long as it's morality that governing officials prefer.

[DiogenesLamp]

A will cannot make something legal after death that would be illegal if done before death.

Giving his money to people he wished to support was illegal before he died?

[JimRed]

Blacks and queers already have lots of scholarship opportunities. Why not white straights?

[Raycpa]

Giving his money to people he wished to support was illegal before he died?

I don't know. The article says the will was supposed to establish a trust to disburse scholarships. If under Canadian law a scholarship trust is unlawful if it discriminates against homosexuals then trying to do the same thing after death doesn't make it legal.

I assume that if he left the money to certain specific individuals it would have been honored.

[chesley]

Whoops, I see that there was. Shoulda read the article b4 posting

[hal ogen]

The judge is an idiot...which is apparently often the case. Spend your money before you die. It is hard to plan, but you might be able to get close.

[DiogenesLamp]

I don't know. The article says the will was supposed to establish a trust to disburse scholarships. If under Canadian law a scholarship trust is unlawful if it discriminates against homosexuals then trying to do the same thing after death doesn't make it legal.

This is where we have gotten with this "social justice" crap. It has granted the government the power to regulate morality.

Barry Goldwater opposed the civil rights act of 1964 because he knew this would balloon up into a catch all for any group of people the government wants to punish.

Discrimination is bad, but it is not the government's job to tell other people what morals they should have. If they wish to discriminate, they ought to have the freedom to do so, and then let society dissuade them, not government law.

Of course this is Canada, but I cannot help but think their "social justice" awareness is a consequence of what this nation pioneered, and not in a good way.

[IronJack]

The doctor didn't earn that. His estate belongs to the Collective, and should be disbursed according to its will, not his.

All power to the Collective, comrades!

[mad_as_he$$]

Huummm...A five head.

[LibertarianLiz]

I’m pretty sure there are scholarships dedicated to this or that minority or special class of student.

You are right. When my eldest daughter was getting ready to go to college, I went to the local bookstore and looked at the books with scholarships/grants in them. Every "minority" had multiple scholarships in them. Not one for a non-minority. It was eye opening.

I remember my daughter's piano teacher telling me that there are lots of scholarships and grants that my daughter could get. I just stood there thinking that this woman has bought into the whole propaganda line and is probably thinking that they were now getting things that only white people used to get; instead of the reality that she and her daughter were eligible to get things that white people never got.

[LibertarianLiz]

On my previous post: My daughter’s piano teacher was Chinese-American.

[Pontiac]

Royal Trust Corp., the trustee, had asked the court for direction on whether it had to follow Priebe's instructions. Its lawyer did not comment on the decision.

Justice Allissa Mitchell must be a highly educated special kind of idiot to come up with this ruling.

And Dr. Victor Priebe's trustee must be a special kind of A-Hole to ask the court for a ruling on whether it had to follow Priebe's instructions.

It is instructive to the rest of us that you have to be very careful when choosing a lawyer.

[MarvinStinson]

I missed that about the guy’s own lawyer betraying him.

[Albion Wilde]

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