13 Sept 2018
Now that, in Doug Ford, Ontario has its very own Donald
Trump, it has to have its very own #Resistance.
Where America has District Court judges vetoing Executive
Orders of its newly elected president covering the entire United States,
Ontario has to have judges vetoing ordinary Acts of its newly elected
legislature, now controlled by our very own Donald Trump.
We even have our own Hillary Clinton. Andrea Horwath
is practically foaming at the mouth over the overriding in the constitutionally
prescribed manner of an attempted judicial veto. I thought she opposed
the elites and supported democracy. How would she act if socialism were
declared unconstitutional in a Toronto courtroom?
Justice Edward (Rocky) Belobaba made a decision that calls
into question legal reasoning. But never mind, He made a decision
the #Resistance can use to hammer our very own Donald Trump, and we are treated
to scenes reminiscent of the confirmation hearings of Judge Brett Kavanaugh in
the course of that hammering.
In a brief return to lucidity, columnist Thomas Walkom
charitably described Belobaba’s decision as “whimsical” where fallacious is the
apt term. Explaining how the fundamental right of a citizen of Toronto to
freedom of expression is changed by whether the size of city council is 25 or
47 brings legal reasoning into disrepute.
The progressive cause in Ontario needs to get a life.
Ford isn’t Trump. Ontario can’t be its own little United States.
The sky isn’t going to fall if Toronto council has 25 instead of 47
members. But it will matter if the judiciary is used to thwart
conservatives, defend a progressive agenda, and call into question the purpose
of voting for something else.
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