Ever More Stupid Judge Tricks

The Supremeshave ruled 5:4 about the so called Youth Criminal Justice Act. Now the Crown must show why a young( 14-17) violent hoodlum should be sentenced as an adult.
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.

L Ian Macdonald: Quebec separatism is waning

L Ian Macdonald writes about a panel of Quebec intelligentsia. It seems that if separatism is not dead, it requires life support.
Federalists can take heart from this column! The tide seems to be finally turning. HM PM Stephen Harper policies are a major reason for this.

Here's another thought, and it pertains to the shifting political landscape in Quebec. The federal Liberal brand has been incrementally declining in Quebec since the unilateral patriation of the Constitution in 1982 and the death of Meech in 1990, and accelerated by the sponsorship scandal since 2003. The Liberals' reversal of fortune in Quebec has reached the point where, under a Quebecois leader perceived as hardliner on federalism, it has fallen to fourth place among francophones in the latest CROP poll.

And then Stephen Harper, with his open federalism speech in the last campaign, broke the polarization and symbiotic relationship between the Liberals and the Bloc. In office, Harper is going out of his way to respect the division of powers between Ottawa and the provinces in Sections 91 and 92 of the British North America Act. He is a BNA prime minister. And on his watch so far, coincidentally or not, support for sovereignty has fallen by 10 points.

This may also have something to do with Harper's November, 2006, resolution in the House, recognizing "the Quebecois nation within a united Canada."

In a way that has yet to be measured at the polls, this appears to have healed the wounds of Meech, and helped Quebecers to move on.

This is an apology?

Grit Senator Dallaire has kind of apologized by reiterating the offensive words he initially used.

The decorated military veteran went on, however, to stand by the position he articulated at a parliamentary committee on Tuesday that if Canada does not act to protect Mr. Khadr's human rights, the country is no better than terrorists. "We cannot avoid the point that if we violate international law in our pursuit of the war on terror, we risk reducing ourselves, collectively, to the same level of those we oppose," his statement said.

Chavez caught red handed

Chavez and his goons have been caught helping FARC. It is an act of war against Columbia. More evidence that this marxist thief is a destabilizing influence in the region and in his own country. All efforts must be made to stop him. Hopefully this will show his neighbours how dangerous he truly is.

Rebel Documents Present Damning Evidence of Venezuelan Aid to FARC
Thursday, May 15, 2008


Venezuela offered substantial military help to Colombian rebels in their fight against the Colombian government, according to a report Thursday by the Washington Post, which cited internal rebel documents.
The Post reports that Venezuelan officials set up contacts with Australian arms dealers and arranged for missile training in the Middle East, according to the documents, which were on computer hard drives seized by Colombia.
Venezuela's ties to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, came under further scrutiny Thursday when Interpol said it had concluded that the Colombian government hadn't tampered with the seized computers...

More on polar bears

I have written many posts on polar bears. The population of polar bears are increasing, yet the chicken littles insist that they can't swim and will drown because of global warming.

A false mascot for climate change
Don Martin, National Post
Published: Thursday, May 15, 2008

OTTAWA -- When environmentalist activists want cuddly creatures for poster purposes, nothing beats Canadian.

Forget our most endangered species like the black-footed ferret, northern swift fox and Vancouver Island marmot. They don't stand a chance of becoming fundraiser-worthy victims when there are fuzzy seals and majestic polar bears to protect through international publicity...

Terence Corcoran also weighs in.

Dions own MP's openly critical

Carbon tax plan risky, Dion warned
Dion's own MPs are very afraid of vtheir leader's communication skills. This comes from the red star.



Liberal leader told by his caucus that sales job for the greenhouse gas proposal has been abysmal
May 15, 2008 04:30 Am
BRUCE CAMPION-SMITH
OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF
OTTAWA–Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion gave a strong defence of the idea of a carbon tax yesterday in the face of warnings from within his party that the proposal could be political suicide.
Dion's defence came just hours after Liberal MPs privately voiced concerns that the party was losing the public relations war even before its strategy is released.
Caucus members "massively and aggressively" warned Dion that the sales job thus far has been abysmal, according to one MP, leaving the Tories to paint the plan as a tax grab that will hit motorists and homeowners.
"They (the Liberals) have decided, in this time of rising gas prices, that the key to winning the next election and keeping their party together is to raise those gas prices on ordinary Canadians. That is the plan their leader is going to be unveiling in the weeks ahead," government House leader Peter Van Loan told the Commons yesterday.

More Nastiness from the ultra left

The Daily Kos does a very good job being petty , nasty and mean. Jenna Bush had her wedding last weekend. The Daily Kos thought this was a good opportunity to attack the her. The children of politicians should not be attacked. This is a low blow even for leftists.

Robot Conductor

Move over Maestro Nagano. Here comes the Honda Robot!
The Detroit symphony had a robot conduct the orchestra. The robot was just being a mimic , but it excited the kids watching.