The headline reads “Justice Bastarache to retire from Supreme Court”. And of course it strikes fear into the hearts and minds of Canada’s left immediately. Liberals rely on their Courts division to change the face of Canada into something they can remotely stomach. They can’t seem to do it through democracy.
Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien appointed his friend Michel Bastarache in 1997. Bastarache and Chretien were both partners at the law firm Lang, Michener, in the 1980s.
As I’ve said before, the math is quite simple: After decades of liberal-left governments appointing liberals and leftists to every post in the land including in their Supreme Court division, and establishing a Canada that is now replete—stacked from top to bottom—with liberals running every facet of our lives, changing the definition of marriage and “caring” for us and “reading into” our constitution and creating a “Canadian culture” for us and ensuring we don’t eat trans fats but have access to free limitless abortions at any time in any pregnancy for any reason (…), Conservatives now in power have a moral responsibility to appoint only solid, true blue conservatives to every post that comes open, for the next twenty years or so.
Only then will Canada have a semblance of balance in philosophical and political perspectives.
The liberals’ Supreme Court of Canada division is the most important place to shore up the conservative side (and since there’s nine justices, the balance should of course swing our way. Winning elections means something). Prime Minister Harper must personally act very positively now and move Canada forward by ensuring an appointment of a true blue social conservative who also of course believes in all other conservative values of freedom, including normal free market capitalism, democracy, and all other core foundational Canadian values.
Bastarache wasn’t a particularly liberal leftist justice as far as I know (which isn’t very far). He ruled in favor of striking down Quebec’s ban on private health care insurance for medically necessary health services. That was a good decision.
He also spoke out as one of a minority of Supreme Court justices against the Court when the rest of them ruled that public group sex clubs were what liberals in Canada insist is another one of their “Canadian Values”, and should be perfectly legal and fine:
“We are convinced that this new approach strips of all relevance the social values that the Canadian community as a whole believes should be protected”, and “introduces a concept of tolerance that does not seem to be justifiable according to any principle whatsoever.”
He also objected to Liberal failure Paul Martin’s effort to get his liberals’ Courts division to make a favorable reference with regard to the liberals’ “Canadian Value” of a redefinition of traditional marriage and family, so as to include same-sex ‘marriage’ and obliterate “husband” and “wife”; “mom” and “dad”, and so on, from our stupid old conservative lexicon. In a CBC story at the time:
Justice Michel Bastarache was among several justices who suggested Paul Martin’s government is trying to use the court to do the politically charged work of introducing gay marriage across the country.
Bastarache said the role of the nine Supreme Court of Canada justices is to carry out legal work, not political work.
As you can see, judicial appointments don’t always go according to plan. That’s why it’s important to vet them carefully and ensure that they are solid, reliable conservatives.
Replacing Bastarache with a conservative justice won’t effectively tilt the current “balance” by any stretch; it will merely maintain it. In other words, subsequent retiring justices also need to be replaced with solid conservatives in order to begin the process of rectifying the balance in Canada.
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