The Canadian Supreme Court

Numbertwelve web site ^ | August 4th, 2002 | James Bredin

[shamus11]

In Canada, Supreme Court appointees are never questioned about their special interests or biases. Appointees are secure in their well-paid and powerful positions until they are 75 or die. Their decisions change more laws in Canada than parliament makes. The prime minister, who introduced the "notwithstanding" clasuse in parliament in 1982, has never used it to avoid this advancing judicial dictatorship. These unquestioned judges change the laws and therefore make the laws -- not the politicians.

[shamus11]

Questions for a female Supreme Court Appointee

By

James Bredin

If your lesbian Supreme Court judge was feminist to boot,
And she sent you to jail for years without giving a hoot,
And her hidden interests, you were not allowed to know,
As she scowled without question and you learned to kowtow.

‘Cause unlike the Americans, Canadians can’t ask,
This political appointee with a face like a mask,
Are you a butch, gay, queer or just another simple dyke?
Are you in a same-sex marriage and is this what you like?

Is that a swastika tattooed in red on your arm?
Are you that way inclined and would it do any harm?
Is that a moustache or just a few hairs on your lip?
Should those who own guns be given the whip?

Is hanging a good thing or is hanging way out?
Should so many prisoners be out and about?
Are those black jackboots you’ve got on your feet?
In the middle of the summer in this ninety-degree heat?

Why should you be allowed to change all the laws in the land?
No notwithstanding clause used for a political stand?
Why should you turn us into this totalitarianism?
Does democracy count in your authoritarianism?

Canadian Supreme Court

[2nd_Amendment_Defender]

Those in authority without checks on their power will become tyrants that will abuse their authority. It's the sad same story we hear again and again.