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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.

Is it the interest of the state that is offended or is it the will of the state that is offended? Or maybe it is the sensibilities of the judge that are offended.

After all I very much doubt that in the larger sense of things that the doctor's restrictions of the disbursement of his legacy can have much impact in the vast dealings of the nation of Canada. Other than the publishing of some self-righteous articles bemoaning the racist doctor's scholarship fund I just don't see there being any great impact on Canada by this doctor having his way in disposing of his estate after his death.