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Christine T.'s avatar

That's an unbelievable comment coming from a judicial system in Canada that is made up of activist judges who aren't applying the law as they should in the name of social justice. The rights and freedoms of the individual Canadian take second place. For example, ones right to be able to walk down the street safely takes second place to the rights of the criminal who happened to be brought up in terrible circumstances, abuse etc. so that the judge says "It's not his fault" and lets him out on bail to commit another crime.

These same type of judges are trying to block policies that Trump is doing in the US by deporting illegal immigrants who commit crimes (some very violent crimes like murder), just as one example.

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Doug Stephens's avatar

And his comments on the Freedom Convoy back in the day were certainly politically driven.

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Harold Buchner's avatar

Yeah that should have cost him his job but here in Canadastan he was a good comrade .

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J Holden's avatar

If only they would judge based on the law.

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Transformative Outlook's avatar

Another Liberal Nut.

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RobertM's avatar

All is lost in Canada's judicial system with left wing extremist nut like Wagner in charge. Pedaphiles. gang bangers, drug traffickers. murderers, car jackers, all on the loose in Canada and Wagner is worried about Trump. A judge in BC just let a pedo go because he determined that the kiddie porn on his computer was light weight stuff.

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Geoff Powell's avatar

I disagree.

Quoting Wagner from the article, “He then went further, warning that when governments attack “the media, judges, lawyers and universities,” as he claimed the Trump administration has done, there’s “a good chance it’s a dictatorship, an autocratic government.””

When the lawyers and judges (who incidentally are most often members of and appointed by, the other party) aren’t upholding the rule of law, attributing the rights of citizens and legal residents to illegal aliens. When the media and universities are doing everything in their power to undermine the duly elected government. It isn’t lawful dissent or disagreement it borders on sedition.

The problem usually is the autocratic government is the one that uses the legal system, the media and universities against its opponents. Kind of what happened under the Biden administration and has been happening here in Canada.

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Derek Holshorst's avatar

Geoff, Wagner wants the power, he is like the adversary in the Bible.

What makes him think that Judges and their fellow Laywers are the ones that should rule over us?

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J Holden's avatar

Love him or hate him, Canada needs a Trump to clean house.

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Geoff Powell's avatar

That and our own DOGE…

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J Holden's avatar

Sorry Geoff. But recent history has indicated that (media, judges, lawyers and universities,” ) have a proven, inescapable bias. Especially Legacy Media and Universities. Had Wagner not looked at or understood that the Trudeau government corrupted Media with huge taxpayer funded donations/bailouts. Had he only criticized the university governance for it's antisemitic pro Palestinian violence, or had he not noticed the Trudeau governments lean towards censorship...had he never moved out of his elitist bubble.

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Harold Buchner's avatar

If our courts and the SS RCMP did their job Trudeau would be doing 6-8 years in prison long ago for the SNC Lavalin case . For the rest of his crimes life .

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J Holden's avatar

Laws for we but not for Trudeau.

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Harold Buchner's avatar

That really sums it up . True dictator above the law . A true sociopath and psychopath .

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J Holden's avatar

Canada's tyrant child.

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GerryT's avatar

Well said. Mic drop

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M. Breaton's avatar

I'm amused by the pot criticizing the pan here, in light of the authoritarian creep happening in Canada.

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John Lade's avatar

This is rich coming from a Canadian judge. The Prime Minister appoints superior court and Supreme Court judges in Canada; therefore, in effect, the Liberals control the judiciary, so this chief justice is parroting liberal thoughts. If I were the chief justice, I would concentrate on the Canadian crime rate, guns and gangs, and the fentanyl problem instead of the problems across the border.

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Peter Stubbins's avatar

I do not understand why universities cannot be criticized, is that because that is where the ideological training of lawyers begins and why is ok for 70% of professors, or more, to have leftist ideology. I like dynamic balance between left and right OR better how about training critical thinkers period

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Sandra D Barber's avatar

Judge or not, please remember that it is his opinion only, and why should it matter? He is not GOD.

I am guessing that he is a Liberal appointee. Perhaps he would do better to learn more about what is going on in California and why. It seems that mainstream media all believe the demonstrations are mostly "peaceful", whereas I have seen many videos which clearly show that "peaceful" is 100% violent and to blazes with law and order. That is anarchy, unless I am mistaken.

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Bamboo's avatar

Wagner was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2012 by Harper to replace Marie Dechamps. He was then installed to the position of Chief Justice in 2017 by Trudeau...

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Harold Buchner's avatar

Bought and paid for .

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Bamboo's avatar
2dEdited

Judge Wagner is everything but, "honorable". His personal political opinions have no place in the public domain and as such he has clearly disgraced what integrity he may have had.....

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Robyn Grater's avatar

WOW! When both sides of the political fence are calling the other "dictatorships" and "a threat to our democracy", we have to question what is going on! Somebody's got to be a liar! I'd check and see how much free speech we have in Canada, and compare it to the U.S.. We "here up north" can't even get access to all the news outlets we want and I only watch the "independent newscasts" like this one who delve into the mainstream horse-puckey so "I don't have to"! We need to keep soldiering on!

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Untitled's avatar

This Wagner hypocrite must have his brain scrambled. The statements he makes definitely is referring to his own pm and his crooked comrades, as well as himself. They rule according to the requests of the lieberal regime. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Not to mention the dictatorial communist rule in kanaduuh.

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Mike Power's avatar

As much as I thought Harper was the best PM in Canada, Wagner was one of his mistakes, as well as not filling the Senate with like minded people. Wagner has no idea what he is talking about, or pretends he doesn't. The real autocracy in the US was from 2020-2024. Though Biden was out of it mostly, his handlers used him to allow in 11 million illegals, turn justice on it's head and run roughshod over the justice system. As we found out in this country during Covid the so called Charter turned out to be a fraud, "guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society," Liberal judges got to decide what is demonstrably justified, and we got a vaccine which has probably done more harm than good. Wagner called his court progressive. That says it all about this guy.

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J Holden's avatar

Yes. Another Quebecois French Laurentia elite. complements of Harper.

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mooligan007's avatar

Pot calling kettle black, a dictatorship is where the judges, media, colleges etc are bought off and spew out government propaganda, I think mr notsmartypants chief justice has it backwards, it is Canada heading down the road to authoritarianism..no doubt instructed to say this by marxist carnage. The chief justice is a twat.

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J Holden's avatar

Agreed. Allowing the Liberals to move towards more censorship??? Tyrants.

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James's avatar

Options are like assholes…

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Lorne Beaudette's avatar

Perhaps if either national had an impartial judiciary or MSM, he might have a point.

As it is however, he is part of the problem, not the solution.

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JAMES Cork's avatar

re: dictatorship

The first thing that Mr. His Honour Wagner needs to remember is that no one in the nation elected him to his position. His current position is due to his political connections, mostly Liberal, and that it is his responsibility to see that the laws, regardless which party proposed them and found sufficient support in Parliament, are applied without bias.

Unfortunately, the major problem with justice in both Canada and the US is that there is no vote for supreme court justices. There is a problem in the US with voting for local judges which thankfully we do not have. However, we have endless appointment of judges with political ties at lower levels which invariably causes problems such as ''socially activist'' judges. In this matter if Mr. Wagner wants to point out autocracies they exist in the form of supreme courts, not duly elected presidents.

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