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Location: Saskatchewan, Canada

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

P.E.I. Court of Appeal indulges in discriminatory 'justice' based on specious reasoning

As the title says, Canada's courts have indulged again in discriminatory sentencing treating one a member of one ethnic class more leniently that others, based solely on ideologically, politically correct, identity politics.  See this web address:

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/judge-failed-to-consider-young-mans-indigenous-heritage-p-e-i-appeal-court

My full comment follows:

To any serious jurist concerned about non-discriminatory justice, this Court of Appeal decision, and the Supreme Court of  Canada's Gladue case decision, are travesties of justice.  Unfortunately, the liberal political correctness and  identity politics adopted by many of Canada's courts and judges often rules in harmful ways.  The actual sentence by the trial judge was reasonable.  And the reasoning of the C of A was specious, at best. The proof of part of that specious reasoning lies in the nonsensical claim that Indians are "over-represented" in prison.  How can that be true if they did the crime, were fairly and properly prosecuted, and the guilty decision or plea was fairly done in a non-discriminatory manner?  To do what the politically correct courts do is to apply political principles and ideology to sentencing decisions.  That is not justice - it is not even-handed and is discriminatory against other persons sentenced in the system.

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