Doug Ford’s ignorant comments about judges imperil justice system
On April 30, Premier Doug Ford went on a surreal and revealing “rant” about judges, saying that he’d pay “bleeding heart” judges to “retire earlier.” He criticized court decisions and proceeded to say, “[Y]ou can’t have judges constantly overruling the government,” arguing that because elected officials pass laws, unelected judges should have no authority to review those laws.
Scepticism For Gladue In Twenty-First Century Manitoba Media
Many Canadians know — or at least think they know — about the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC)’s 1999 decision in R v Gladue. Recently, for example, when I told a man at my gym that I plan to article in criminal law, he told me to make sure I knew about Gladue because, in his words, “it’s a case that says when an Indigenous person commits a crime, we take the sentence that you would give a white person for the same crime and cut it in half.”
