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Yes because this SCC has been signalling to parliament for near 20 years that mandatory minimums need to allow for some discretion in unique circumstances.

Parliament consistently drafts and passes badly drafted laws.

There’s pretty recent case law explaining why the hypothetical is used in s.12 cases.

The fictional 18 year old might not have the resources to bring a charter challenge in their case. And it’s a better use of judicial resources to deal with it when the matter is before the court.

Completely immunizing yourself and your government from all causes of action, (including those based on bad faith), and from both s.52 remedies (which makes sense because NWC) but also Charter damages, really is a “mask off” moment.

They engaged the ATA in good faith at any point.

My worry is that unlike Ford (to a degree), Smith and the UCP seem to be more headstrong and willing to dig their heels in, consequences be damned (because it’s the marxists and leftist media that’s lying about everything).

This is an excellent summary of Sabir’s comments, but the missing thing is that Janis Iwrin is absolutely *seething* in the background. Like absolutely furious.

Danielle Smith and the UCP’s Bill 1 is literally Labour Convention Reference (1937) UKPC 6 repackaged and presented as some landmark drawing a line in the sand in federalism.

Lord Akin literally said this was the case almost 90 years ago!

Did Danielle Smith and the UCP just discover the Privy Council’s Labour Convention Reference (1937)?

Judicial activism is when judges make decisions I don’t personally agree with and the more I don’t agree with it the more judicial activism it is.

2022 before second wave of COVID hit, my friends and I were going to go see Simple Plan at Sandman, with the opener being The Offspring.

See as Exhibit A to my above post:

Part of the reason we’re in the situation we are now is that right wing commentators are exceptionally good at creating convincing strawman of the left and the base doesn’t look outside their chamber to see that the strawman is actually made of straw.

You will of course note that pretty much unanimously democratic lawmakers and left leaning commentators are denouncing in the strongest terms political violence but you wouldn’t get that impression from various conservative commentators.

Banning Margret Atwood’s The Handmaids Tale is a bit on the nose even for the UCP.

Isn’t this what upper year polisci interns were for?

Thumbs up for Forever Canada

Boo separatists boo

Did my part and signed @lukaszukab.bsky.social #ForeverCanada petition today.

The Separatists were also there (all three of them!) My wife wouldn’t let me go have a constructive dialogue with them.

Six months in and the Dems have finally woken up it seems.

The Jubilee videos are bad not because of the format (although it is bad) but because literally only one side benefits and it’s the “openly Nazi/racist/christian fascist” side because they get their insane views in front of people who would never be exposed to them outside.

Trevor, what the hell are you doing there lending credibility to this?

I previously worked in commercial property management for a large shopping centre and a comment my wife and I have often made is how difficult of a time Aberdeen is going to have to fill the Bays space once it left.

A library would have been a really creative and effective use of that space.

I remember my retired neighbour growing up would pay me $20 (in the early/mid 2000s) to mow her lawn, which was about 30 min of work.

I only realized later once I got a min wage job how absolutely insane that was.

Why buy fentanyl when we can go all in on the gambit and just write “FENTANYL” in big letters on some bags of flour and have it seized by Carney on horseback?

A little known health fact is that you can’t be infected by polio or measles if you bench 315 and are 7% bf because the diseases are actually scared of you.

Nickelback is actually one of the best Canadian bands of all time.

These survey questions and answers are not what you ask if you are serious about the future of Alberta.

Look, I didn’t have super high hopes for the Alberta Next Panel, but with some of the names associated with it, I was cautiously optimistic.

Doing the survey now (after watching the 3 min propaganda video to get to it), that optimism is gone.

It’s indicative of how poorly prepared the Democratic leadership is for this moment when Schumer’s statement is ambiguous as to whether his proposed use of theWar Powers Act is meant to oppose Trump’s actions or retroactively authorize them.

Whatever happens tonight, I love this team.

Being a lawyer means you just walk into random courtrooms and start making arguments and then clients say “yes that’s my lawyer” and sign a retainer agreement after if they like you.

I’d assume no but you also generally don’t rage pull your recently extended $8m goalie 7 min into the first.

Patel is also getting reports that a group of trailer park boys are using a stolen model train to smuggle drugs across the border.

FBI is investigating.