Appointed for life judges are no way to run a country

As I have discussed on this blog before there is an independence movement in Alberta.  A petition demanding a referendum received 300,000 signatures.  That is less than 10% of eligible voters but far more than the 177,000 signatures needed under law to compel the government to act.

The petition has caused a great deal of angst which is understandable since many people have a nostalgic attachment to Canada.  Unfortunately, those people have an attachment to a Canada that no longer exists.  That does not, however, diminish their emotional reaction to the petition.  Canvasser were threatened and social media is full of Maple Maoist insulting anyone who does not believe in the sanctity of Canada and the Canadian government.  This delightful gentleman called me an ignorant loudmouth ditchbilly for questioning why judges keep reading things into treaties that appear nowhere in the text.

Maple Maoists are very concerned.  They now claim that a referendum can’t be held because separation would not be legal.  This is ridiculous when you consider that it would not be the first time an independence referendum has been held in Canada.  The first 2 were in Quebec and there was very little effort to prevent them.  That is not the case with the Alberta referendum.  Maple Maoists are doing everything they can to prevent it from happening.  They believe they have an ace in the hole with native treaties, and a liberal judge, appointed for life by the least intelligent man in the history of Canadian politics, agrees with them.

in two decisions posted on Wednesday, Justice Sheila Leonard ruled that Alberta’s chief electoral officer Gordon McClure wrongfully approved the petition given an earlier ruling that found the separation question would violate First Nations’ treaty rights.

Specifically, the judge decided that consultation was not done so the petition can’t be accepted.

 “the Crown failed to meet its duty to consult” Indigenous groups.

About 7% of Alberta are Natives.  Some of them signed the petition themselves but the chiefs don’t like it because they have become wealthy off the backs of Canadian taxpayers and don’t want the gravy train to end.  So, in democratic Canada a handful of Chiefs who are tax parasites are more important than 300,000 taxpayers.

That is not what the judge said though.  She said it was about Native rights and a duty to consult.  That sounds so proper until you realize that Native rights and the duty to consult are both Liberal fictions forced on us by liberal appointed judges.

To start Canadians do not have rights.  I have discussed that before.  Our charter of rights eliminated rights by defining them as privileges that can be legislated away.  Natives don’t have rights either.  The courts just use that as an excuse to block things they don’t like.  They are often referred to as treaty rights but just as there are no rights in our charter of rights there are no rights in the treaties.  This is hardly surprising in the land of Orwellian double speak that we call Canada.

What the treaties do say is that the natives have given up the land forever.  This is the verbiage of treaty 7.

the Blackfeet, Blood, Piegan, Sarcee, Stony and other Indians inhabiting the district hereinafter more fully described and defined, do hereby cede, release, surrender, and yield up to the Government of Canada for Her Majesty the Queen and her successors for ever, all their rights, titles, and privileges whatsoever to the lands included within the following limits, that is to say:

Commencing at a point on the International Boundary due south of the western extremity of the Cypress Hills, thence west along the said boundary to the central range of the Rocky Mountains, or to the boundary of the Province of British Columbia, thence north-westerly along the said boundary to a point due west of the source of the main branch of the Red Deer River, thence south-westerly and southerly following on the boundaries of the Tracts ceded by the Treaties numbered six and four to the place of commencement;

And also, all their rights, titles and privileges whatsoever, to all other lands wherever situated in the North-West Territories, or in any other portion of the Dominion of Canada:

There are a couple more treaties in Alberta, but the language is the same.  The natives gave up the land forever.  They did this in return for security.  South of the medicine line (the Canada US border) natives were hunted down and killed by the US Calvary.  North of the medicine line natives were safe.  They wanted to keep it that way, so they signed away their land.

Natives were given one fake right in the treaties.  They were allowed to keep using the land they gave up. Even though it was called a right it really wasn’t because they were only allowed to use the land until the government decided they needed it.  It wasn’t a right; it was a temporary privledge subject to the whims of government.

And Her Majesty the Queen hereby agrees with her said Indians, that they shall have right to pursue their vocations of hunting throughout the Tract surrendered as heretofore described, subject to such regulations as may, from time to time, be made by the Government of the country, acting under the authority of Her Majesty and saving and excepting such Tracts as may be required or taken up from time to time for settlement, mining, trading or other purposes by Her Government of Canada; or by any of Her Majesty’s subjects duly authorized therefor by the said Government.

But courts in Canada don’t care about documents if they interfere with the judges own personal ideology.  Several years ago, the courts decided that written in invisible ink in the treaties was a duty to consult.  The crown must consult with Natives on land they no longer own and in most cases are no longer allowed to use.  Makes sense right?

This decision and others like it rank as the number one reason why every province should leave Canada.  Courts in Canada are stocked with ideological lunatics that have absolute power.  Once a court decides anything it suddenly carries the weight of law.  And there is no way to remove a rogue judge.  Canada is a judicial tyranny.

Even our most foundational documents have been forced on us by the courts.  As a colony of England Canada had no official constitution.  The first Trudeau moron tried to change that.  They pasted together the British North America act with a couple other documents including our fake charter of rights and called it the constitution.  The fly in the ointment was Quebec.  Quebec, thankfully, refused to sign.  That did not matter to the courts.  They decided that Quebec and the rest of Canada were subject to the constitution that Quebec refused to sign.

The whole thing is another bit of twisted logic by the courts.  There is a clause in the constitution that says any major change must be approved by all 10 provinces.  This is often cited as a reason Alberta can’t leave because all the other provinces would have to agree.  But how does any of that make sense?  A document that Quebec has not signed cannot be changed without Quebec’s signature?

Canada is a hopeless mess held hostage by appointed judges who are under no obligation to use law, logic, or common sense.  Alberta can’t leave soon enough.