Ever More Stupid Judge Tricks
They also struck down allowing the names of these young thugs to be published.
The supremes have given young criminals free licence to commit violent crime with impunity.
I hope HM Government uses the not withstanding clause in this instance. The supremes care nothing for individual Canadians. the cancer of liberal judges has once again endangered Canadians and mollycoddled criminals. Trudeau must be so proud. The sections struck down ,are from all too weak grit legislation. Even that was too much for the John Howard society members of the supreme court. At least four of the Supremes have some concept of the role of Parliament. The other judicial activists seem to have abandoned any pretext that the legislature and the will of the people have any value. Good work Abella.
This is a sad day for justice in Canada.
But it is now up to the Crown to prove why a stiffer sentence is warranted.
Four of the nine justices gave a dissenting opinion, writing that it is "entirely appropriate" for Parliament to consider the competing interests of public safety and the reduced moral blameworthiness of violent young offenders.
The landmark judgment comes 100 years after Canada first adopted a separate justice system for adolescents in 1908.
Update: Viloent crime committed by youth increasing!
Violent crime among youth on the rise: StatsCan
Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, May 16, 2008
OTTAWA - The overall crime rate among youth inched up by just three per cent between 2005 and 2006, but homicides and other violent crimes are becoming more common, Statistics Canada reported Friday.
According to information collected by Canadian police forces, the violent crime rate among youth aged 12 to 17 increased by 12 per cent between 1997 and 2006, and 30 per cent since 1991. The overall violent crime rate in Canada, by contrast, declined by four per cent between 1997 and 2006.
Much of the increase in the violent crime rate among young people has been driven by a rise in the number of assaults. Youth accused of assault represented nearly 80 per cent of all young people arrested for a violent crime in 2006.























