Legal rulings to note
Quebec is going to appeal a 2022 ruling that outlaws police spot checks on the grounds that they foster racial profiling. Quebec hopes the Supreme Court will see things its way, rather than confirming what both the Quebec Superior Court, and the Quebec Court of Appeal have already decided.
In other fun legal news, the Supreme Court has chosen not to hear an appeal about the legality of the 1982 patriation of the Canadian constitution. Oldtime PQ stalwart Daniel Turp plans to take the matter to the United Nations Human Rights Council because after all, poor Daniel, he’s had his human rights denied for too long.
Ephraim 14:59 on 2024-12-05 Permalink
This would be much easier to prove if the police were required to input all their reasoning into a computer before stopping someone. That way, if the logic holds up and the statistics show the stops are truly random, the Crown prosecutors would have solid data to back them up. On the other hand, if the reasoning doesn’t hold up, we could hold officers accountable—perhaps even docking their salary—for wasting time based on their own biases. And send them back for retraining. So they have something to lose as well.
SMD 15:34 on 2024-12-05 Permalink
I am disappointed that Prof Turp is spending his valuable time chasing after these windmills. He and his students did great work a few years ago pushing the Feds when they permitted the sale of armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia, including documenting the human rights abuses that the Saudis committed with them in Yemen. He could be doing the same examination of the many parts and munitions that Canadian companies are currently selling “off the books” to the US to then be given to Israel.