What The Hell Is Up With Canadian Courts … Eh?
I knew Canada was in trouble when a few decades ago they made it illegal to ‘deny the Holocaust’ happened.
Granted, anyone who takes such an asinine position on the worst genocide murder of a group of people in the 20th Century should be discredited and demonized … but I do not believe they should be criminalized … unless [they] had a hand in that genocide and were denying it happened.
But of recent years … months, actually … Canada has done some very bizarre things in their courts … Just ask Mark Steyn.
The Canadian Courts have lost their fooking Canuck minds … Hosers!
Court overturns father’s grounding of 12-year-old
A Canadian court has lifted a 12-year-old girl’s grounding, overturning her father’s punishment for disobeying his orders to stay off the Internet, his lawyer said Wednesday.
The girl had taken her father to Quebec Superior Court after he refused to allow her to go on a school trip for chatting on websites he tried to block, and then posting “inappropriate” pictures of herself online using a friend’s computer.
The father’s lawyer Kim Beaudoin said the disciplinary measures were for the girl’s “own protection” and is appealing the ruling.
“She’s a child,” Beaudoin told AFP. “At her age, children test their limits and it’s up to their parents to set boundaries.”
“I started an appeal of the decision today to reestablish parental authority, and to ensure that this case doesn’t set a precedent,” she said. Otherwise, said Beaudoin, “parents are going to be walking on egg shells from now on.”
“I think most children respect their parents and would never go so far as to take them to court, but it’s clear that some would and we have to ask ourselves how far this will go.”
According to court documents, the girl’s Internet transgression was just the latest in a string of broken house rules. Even so, Justice Suzanne Tessier found her punishment too severe.
Beaudoin noted the girl used a court-appointed lawyer in her parents’ 10-year custody dispute to launch her landmark case against dear old dad.
(AFP)
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