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The power to appoint judges doesn’t mean Harper will get what he wants
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
May 20, 2011
When the final Insite decision comes down, don’t expect much of a rift between Harper’s appointees and the majority who were there before he came along… the Charter of Rights… says the government cannot act in a way that restricts Canadians’ “life, liberty and security of the person.” … [The PM] cannot choose a justice who would make the Charter of Rights go away. The two he has selected to date, Cromwell and Marshall Rothstein, have not diverged consistently from their colleagues… It’s Parliament, more than the courts, that will shape Canada’s future.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, rights
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If we’re cutting useless things in Ottawa
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
July 23, 2010
Finally, the serious business of tearing down the Canadian federal state has begun… the business of cramming the mighty oak of overgrown government back into an acorn starts with a little hedge trimming… the revolution must not end here… Once we’re done gutting the census—sorry, I mean scattering the quinquennial bean-counting armies of tyranny—it will be time to move on to the next hill. What on Earth can the Harper government do for an encore?… It’s time to think bigger. It’s time to fire half the cabinet.
Tags: ideology
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