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Anti-Family Canadian Judge to be New United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights

OTTAWA, February 11, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Canadian Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour appears to be headed to the United Nations in Geneva to serve as the UN Commissioner for Human Rights. She is considered the top contender for the position, and a highly placed UN source has informed Reuters it "appears a done deal." While the development may be welcome news to social conservatives in Canada who will see at least one radical leftist judge leave the Supreme Court, from her new post, Arbour will tax pro-family supporters the world over.

Her role will be to police governments worldwide on keeping UN dictates regarding human rights. In the past, the role as played by former Irish President Mary Robinson saw nations chastised for failing to uphold abortion and homosexuality, or in UN terms, failure to protect citizens against discrimination based on "sexual orientation" or "reproductive rights."

Arbour, no friend of the traditional family, has ruled in favour of common-law relationships, being in at least one herself. At the time of her Supreme Court appointment in 1999 she had recently split up with a man with whom she bore three children. She began living with her boyfriend while he was still in the midst of divorce proceedings with his former wife.

Beyond her personal life, Arbour's judicial record also speaks of an anti-family bent. Judge Arbour declared in a 1992 insurance case that laws should not discriminate against common-law couples as compared to married couples. Further, in the recent Canada Supreme Court decision on the use of spanking by parents as a form of discipline, justice Arbour was the only one among Canada's nine radical Supreme Court Justices to insist on total criminalization of all spanking.

Also of concern are Arbour's globalist views. Speaking about the controversial proposal to have an International Criminal Court to prosecute what the UN sees as "human rights abuses" (which would include forced pregnancy), Arbour insisted that the ICC "would have universal jurisdiction (and) all states would be required to co-operate. It would have coercive powers that would bind states to produce documents and evidence [and] it would be armed with the ability to get evidence it needs."

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