Thanos Thanos:
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
Parliament should not be drafting legislation they know is unconstitutional!
Kind of hard to have the government, or nation in general, able to function if the courts strike down a generation later something that was completely legal just because the trends of modern times have changed. It's nothing new to Canadians of a conservative-to-moderate mindset that we've been living under a left-leaning judicial tyranny for a long time. Parliament was effectively neutered by the adoption of the Charter and there's no reason to believe that will ever change in our lifetimes.
Parliament isn't hobbled by the Judiciary. There are ways to change the Charter and the Constitution, but successive governments know they can't push their agendas past the Provinces to get those amendments passed.
And the whole point of law is that it adapts to the will of the people. If we see something is not morally right, they should come in to strike down things like Prostitution or Victim Surcharges. I like to think of myself as a centrist conservative, and I don't see this 'left leaning tyranny' you speak of.
I do see bills C-13 and C-14; "Cyberbullying" and designating people found not criminally responsible of a crime as dangerous offenders; as an extremist move to fix a problem that doesn't exist that can only result in less freedom for everyone. And that's the way it's probably designed.
I'm glad the courts are doing what they were designed to do, and protecting us from the legislators with an unlawful agenda.