The defence pointed out the similarities between this case and a previous case (right down to the details of the totally clueless testimony that he had his client give matching the equally clueless testimony in the other case :dubious:) which had ended in acquittal, and which submitted the very thick reprint of. It was going to take the JP some time just to read it, I expect.
The CanaDoper Café (2012 edition of The great, ongoing Canadian current events and politics thread.)
Well, I wish the 100 year old judge, or justice, or whomever would have thought things through in my witness case. I clearly said the light was green and the guy turning left did so into the path of an oncoming car, and yet the judge found the guy turning left innocent.
Weirdest fucking experience ever. Guy turning left was an immigrant family dude. Guy who ploughed into him was a guy who went to the same high school as me. I was the only witness, The defense lawyer implicated that I was somehow biased and not telling the truth. The judge bought it. I felt sorry for my classmate. A complete travesty of justice because it was young dude with young dude’s “friend” as a witness, versus middle-aged immigrant family dude.
Some decisions are huge. Here, for example, is Meads v. Meads, 2012 ABQB 571 (PDF link), which checks in at a novel-length 188 pages.
It’s not just the length of the decision, though–it can also be the cases cited in the decision that need to be read and understood. It took me a week to read Meads in between other things, and a further two or three weeks to read the decisions that contributed to it. I finally came away with an understanding, even though I did not need to decide anything, unlike a judge.
Leaffan, was the decision ever published? Can we find it online, in a resource such as Canlii? We may be able to comment more knowledgeably if we can read it.
If the decision has been published, and you’d like some commentary; PM me the details (names of the parties, etc.). I’d suggest not posting them here in public, as that would compromise your anonymity.
I can search there I guess. This was, what, something like 34 years ago though. Is it possibly there?
No.
I find that interesting, Leaffan, as I was in a similar situation but was the left turner at a busy intersection and got smacked by someone who changed lanes at the last second and accelerated right into me. I was told by the cops that the person turning left is always at fault, as is the person who rear ends another car. I never fought it in court because I was told by a few people it would be a waste of time.
Justin Trudeau under fire for long gun registry comments. He does seem to be a bit of a panderer.
I love politicians like this – old school, bald-faced, shameless.
So entertaining.
This time from a stop in Quebec:
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Those quotes don’t sound as contradictory to me as they do to some people, I guess. Just because he said the long gun registry was a failure, it doesn’t necessarily follow that he thinks that abolishing it was preferable to keeping it and fixing it somehow.
I agree. The quotes I made makes sense paired together, but they are contradictory to what he said in Ontario earlier:
It’s smae kid of backpeddling as the anti-Alberta comments. Anyway, I’ not going to beat a dead horse here; it’s politics.
Was Pierre Trudeau known for his pandering? He didn’t seem to care what western people thought of him at all. 
I should really find time to proofread.
It still doesn’t sound that contradictory to me. He’s saying the registry “as it was, was a failure” and “there are better ways of keeping us safe than that registry”. So it sounds to me like he’s saying that the specific implementation was poor (hard to argue with that), but that still leaves room to say that there could be a new, improved long gun registry that everyone could be happy with (good luck with that). Since the old registry was eliminated, it would make no sense to say “duh, let’s reinstitute the registry that had problems and then fix it later” instead of “let’s go back to the drawing board”. Maybe I’m missing a nuance, though.
Those Quebec/Alberta comments were just dumb. Full stop.
I thought you just slipped into Scottish for a bit there. 
So, just another reason to (although I don’t like his face, his name, or his politics in general) admire and respect the impeccable timing of Dalton McGuinty, erstwhile Premier of Ontario (the Economic Engine of Canada and last, best hope for World Peace):
Way to get, when the gettin’ is good, Dalton!
Och. Don’t be cheekie.
I have to wonder whether he’s planning on resigning as an MPP also. His local constituency office, which has been at the same location for his whole political career (used to be his law office) has a “For Lease” sign on it.
In memoriam -
Geneviève Bergeron (1968 - 1989), civil engineering student
Hélène Colgan (1966 - 1989), mechanical engineering student
Nathalie Croteau (1966 - 1989), mechanical engineering student
Barbara Daigneault (1967 - 1989), mechanical engineering student
Anne-Marie Edward (1968 - 1989), chemical engineering student
Maud Haviernick (1960 - 1989), materials engineering student
Maryse Laganière (1964 - 1989), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique’s finance department
Maryse Leclair (1966 - 1989), materials engineering student
Anne-Marie Lemay (1967 - 1989), mechanical engineering student
Sonia Pelletier (1961 - 1989), mechanical engineering student
Michèle Richard (1968 - 1989), materials engineering student
Annie St-Arneault (1966 - 1989), mechanical engineering student
Annie Turcotte (1969 - 1989), materials engineering student
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (1958 - 1989), nursing student