If we entrust the average Canadian citizen to be a juror, surely we can trust him to not to misuse courtroom footage. Too bad we can’t trust Canada’s second-largest government to do likewise
Leave it to modern Canadian politics to take a novel, positive development in civic life and fast-track it to the worst-case scenario outcome: On Tuesday, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government released an advertisement that essentially weaponized provincial Court of Appeal Justice James MacPherson against the federal government’s carbon tax. It is a most unwelcome development.
Watch this incredible exchange from Ontario's court challenge of the unconstitutional federal carbon tax. “We hope that livestreaming will help the public to better understand both the legal issues at stake and the hearing process,” Saskatchewan Chief Justice Robert Richards wrote in a statement.
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