Things continue to go from bad to worse on the judicial front for the Harper regime. Funny how those pesky laws get in the way of government ideology, isn't it?
Omar Khadr should be serving his time in a provincial facility and must be transferred from federal prison, the Alberta Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday.
In a blistering assessment of the Harper cabal's tactics, Dennis Edney, Khadr's longtime lawyer, said that the federal government "chose to misinterpret" the international transfer of offenders law.
"We are pleased to get Omar Khadr out of the hands of the Harper government. This is a long series of judgments against this intractable, hostile government.
"It would rather pander to politics than to apply the rule of law fairly to each and every Canadian citizen," Edney said in a statement.
Harper is very busy buying up ethnic votes, by the thousands. Harper is extremely vindictive. He despises the people of BC for, their opposition of the Enbridge pipeline. Harper and Premier Clark, have given BC's ship building contract to Poland. That should also give Harper, the Canadian Polish votes as well.
ReplyDeleteThose who thwarted Harper on Khadr, will likely pay dearly for opposing him. If is anything a control freak hates? It is the people that stand against them.
I often think, Anon, that Harper's pandering for the ethnic vote is a form of stereotyping (ethnic profiling, if you will) at its worst. It assumes that people of a given certain cultural/ethnic heritage votes as a bloc. That's a little like saying all Italians (part of my own heritage on my mother's side) are soft on the Mafia.
DeleteWhen a government's legislative ideology is so routinely held to be contrary to the laws of the land where lies the threshold at which that government should be considered outlaw or rogue? This government has a rich and lengthy history of ignoring or flouting laws, some of them remarkably clear and unambiguous. When a government contends that it, not the judiciary, should interpret laws that presents a grave threat to democracy. Authoritarian regimes all expect the courts to be their water carriers. We have these examples but it must beg the question of how many times the Harper government breaches the law without the matter triggering a reference to the courts? Given the unaccountability and secrecy of this regime that must occur routinely.
ReplyDeleteYour comments, Anon, amply demonstrate why all Canadians who care about the principles and traditions that help define us MUST not only turn out at the polls in 2015 but engage their fellow citizens to do the same.
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