The Law Is An @$$

We have an unaccountable and entirely unfair legal system.

We need to elect our judges, return to the Bill of Rights, and rid the system of bleeding-hearts who have no compunction of coddling monsters:

The lawyer representing the families of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy — tortured and killed in two of the most heinous crimes in modern Canadian history — says the justice system has let them down again by denying the victims' mothers the opportunity to deliver their victim impact statements in person at Paul Bernardo's upcoming parole hearing.

In a letter sent to the head of the Parole Board of Canada (PBC) on Tuesday, lawyer Tim Danson argues his clients have a right to confront their daughters' killer in person.

"It was nothing short of gut-wrenching to experience the painful and heartbreaking reaction of Debbie Mahaffy and Donna French when they learned that the PBC was prohibiting them from representing their daughters (and themselves), and denying them the right to confront Paul Bernardo, in person, through the reading of their Victim Impact Statements," Danson wrote in his letter, which was shared with CBC News.

"This was truly a shock to their system. It was bone chilling — an insult so deep and hurtful that, (figuratively speaking), it set victims' rights back to the stone age."

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A federal court judge has tossed a lawsuit filed by 330 current and former Canadian Armed Forces members each seeking more than $1.3 million in damages for having their Charter rights allegedly violated by a 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Now, they’ll collectively pay $5,040 to Canada in court costs.

Ruling in favour of the government’s motion to strike the case, Associate Judge Catherine Coughlan repeatedly discounted the plaintiffs’ claims under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms because their pleadings were devoid of “material facts” or “evidence” to support the allegations and prove a reasonable cause of action.

 

Is that so? 

Is that why the Trudeau government has given minuscule pay-outs to those injured by the jab?

Interesting.

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Un-damn-believable:

The federal government issued a new passport to an admitted human smuggler after he was ordered to surrender the travel document as part of court-imposed release conditions, CBC News has learned.

The new passport was discovered in June 2023 by RCMP investigators executing a search warrant at the Montreal home of Thesingarasan Rasiah during a probe targeting an international human smuggling network that Rasiah allegedly headed, according to court records obtained by CBC News.

At the time, Rasiah was living at home with an electronic ankle bracelet on strict conditions while awaiting sentencing on a February 2023 guilty plea to one count of breaching the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for his role in the smuggling of a Sri Lankan national from the U.S. into Canada in 2021.

Rasiah had been forced to surrender his passport to the RCMP in 2021 as part of his release conditions related to the human smuggling attempt that was intercepted by police in Cornwall, Ont., located about 120 kilometres west of Montreal along the Canada-U.S. border.

Rasiah was also forbidden from applying for any new travel documents.

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Judges apparently don't know what they are doing:

A Nova Scotia man’s history of regular violence and threats against his common-law spouse has material bearing on charges that he trafficked her for sex, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled, overturning his acquittal and ordering a new trial.

The accused, identified only as T.J.F. in a recent ruling from the country’s top court, was in a relationship with J.D. from 2004 until 2012. He was acquitted at trial, a decision affirmed by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.

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“The trial judge committed an error of law when he held that the evidence of regular violence and threats of violence by the accused against the complainant was past discreditable conduct evidence,” Justice Michelle O’Bonsawin wrote for the majority.

“Even though the trial judge admitted the evidence, this mischaracterization meant he did not assess it properly. That evidence could have been relevant to the essential elements of the offence. It could have formed the basis of a finding that the accused controlled, directed, or influenced the movements of the complainant during the time period specified in the indictment, and a contributing cause of the complainant’s engagement in sexual services. The trial judge’s incorrect assessment of this critical evidence seriously undermined his credibility assessment of the complainant, which he used as the rationale for acquittal.”

The trial judge’s mischaracterization “hindered his overall assessment of the evidence and considerably diminished the evidentiary foundation relevant to the essential elements of the trafficking in persons offence,” said O’Bonsawin.