Court watchers are hard-pressed to remember another time when there’s been such a sharp ideological divide. For Prime Minister Stephen Harper, it’s doubly exasperating. He has long been an opponent of judicial activism and the weight justices have accorded the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He can complain, but a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices are his own appointments. While his picks have been seen as somewhat more conservative than those made by Liberal prime ministers, the justices have failed to do his bidding.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 04:13:57 +0000