TORONTO, February 13, 2002 (LSN.ca) - An editorial in the Feb 6 edition of the National Post notes that a poll showing two-thirds of Canadians wanting an elected Supreme Court is a sign of “deep voter frustration with judges who appear to make the law rather than interpret it, and who are out of touch with mainstream values.”
The editorial points out that “In the 20 years preceding the passage of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Supreme Court overturned exactly one law—a federal statute making it a crime for Indians to be drunk off-reserve. In the two decades since, the Court has struck down nearly 100. Since 1982, the court has effectively banned capital punishment, eliminated abortion laws, ordered preferential treatment for “historically disadvantaged groups” (mostly women and visible minorities) and upheld labour laws that require workers to finance their union leaders’ political agendas. Homosexual rights, which were seven times rejected by the legislators who wrote the Charter, were “read into” the document by the Supreme Court”
See the complete editorial in the Post at: http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20020206/1353213.html&qs=environics