By Colin Alexander ——Bio and Archives--December 17, 2023
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Government in Canada is broken: education, health care, the military, Indigenous affairs, immigration and housing, and Parliament itself. The Senate’s where stooges retire on rocking-chair money. Against this background, a necessity for a free and democratic society should be a trustworthy justice system. But it too is broken. It’s dominated by the vested interests of crony capitalism and woke inanity. That’s the thrust of my recently published book Justice on Trial: Jordan Peterson’s case and others show we need to fix the broken system.
As demonstrated by the Truckers’ Convoyin the winter of 2022, there’s no vestige of capacity for handling a large and lawful protest competently. After the event it took 18 months to bring to court the organizers on picayune charges of mischief. Now the arguably incompetent Justice Heather Perkins-McVey is stringing out the trial for further months and months. There’s all the capacity in the world to make a big deal out of the confrontation that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau induced as his personal vanity project. But as related by John Carpay, president of the Justice System for Constitutional Freedoms, in Ontario alone hundreds of serious charges are thrown out because of delays because prosecutors are overloaded. Ontarians walk away from charges of rape, arson, murder and violent assault—all because the process exceeds the time limit for prosecution. Despite having photographs of the perpetrators, police........