Vincent J. Curtis
14 Sept 2018
RE: Where are the voices of law and reason in Doug Ford’s
cabinet? (The Hamilton Spectator of this date.)
The article written by Martin Regg Cohn was based on a false
premise. The false premise is that the legislation that reduced the size
of Toronto City Council was found illegal. It was not.
The legislation was found unconstitutional, not illegal, and
that is a massive difference. (It would be illegal to enforce the legislation in the teeth of its unconstitutionality.)
Cohn also holds that the use of the Notwithstanding Clause
is somehow illegal, or at least illegitimate. Again he is in error on the
central point. The Notwithstanding Clause is the constitutionally
prescribed means of making a law constitutional despite some judge’s contrary
opinion. You may not like the law in question, but the action of the Ford
government is formally as legal as can be.
Too comfortable in his own opinion, Cohn then goes on to
savage Caroline Mulroney, Ontario’s Attorney-General, whom he holds responsible
for the “illegal” actions of the Ford government. Cohn’s script comes
directly from Saul D. Alinsky’s Rule 13: “Pick a target, freeze it, personalize
it, and polarize it.” Contemptible. These tactics are wicked enough
when you are right; they are nothing but vicious and savage when you are wrong;
and Cohn is wrong.
The world isn’t going to collapse because the size of
Toronto’s city council is reduced to 25 from 47 members. Ontario voted
for change last June, and the savages on the Left are waging all-out war to
stop change from happening.
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