Biased Judges? We can't have that!

According to recent Liberal reactions to Stephen Harper's statement of the obvious, apparently in Canada we are not even allowed to suggest that the PM's appointments to the Appeals Courts may have any kind of ideological bias, or POV, that may affect their decisions.

Can't even talk about it! To do so is to suggest the Courts may be biased! And we can't have that!

Why, if the courts aren't impartial robotic interpreters of the Charter, but flesh-and-blood human beings with feelings, and attitudes, and values, and biases, why, that makes them mortal, and we can't have that!

Why, if that's the case, it would be safer to entrust our moral decisions to the great unwashed of Parliament (300+), rather than the elect (9). And we can't have that!

That would give ordinary Canadians a real chance to influence the moral character of the country as reflected in its laws. And we can't have that!

Why, that might mean that Canadians think there ought to be at least some rudimentary protections for the unborn. And we can't have that!

And it might mean that Canadians, upon reflection, think it's best to leave the definition of marriage the way it was, you know, rooted in human biology. And we can't have that.

All of the above would restore a democratic character to Canada's public life. And we can't have that!

Once again, the anti-democratic instincts of the Liberal Party are on display.

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The Courts, over the past twenty years, have supported a woman's sexual freedoms over an unborn child's right to life; they have recognized the equality of same-sex relationships, and, in so doing, have nullified a child's natural right to know the love of a mother and a father and gone against Canada's entire moral history; they have upheld the right to swinging based on a doctrine of a "minority mores and morals", while announcing they will no longer consider "community values" when making their judgments.

They have declared that there are rights that are not written in the Charter that they plan to recognize and apply.

While accomplishing all of the above, they have failed to protect explicity stated Charter rights including freedom of speech (Chris Kempling), conscience (Scott Brockie) and religion (e.g., PEI bed-and-breakfast couple; marriage commissioners).

The same people who today insist that we cannot even talk about possible bias among Liberal appointments to the Courts will be the first to howl when a Conservative PM appoints someone whose moral centre differs from theirs.