Last week, a British Columbia Supreme Court judge issued an absolutely ridiculous ruling. She declared that Section 5(2) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act is invalid and a violation of Sections 7 and 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
To put that in perspective, she declared that dealing fentanyl, meth, crack or any other hard drug was legal. In her view, charging someone for trafficking in these drugs is a violation of your right to life, liberty and security of the person and your right to be equal before the law.
This was all due to a case involving a pair of activists who sourced cocaine, meth and heroin and distributed it, claiming it was “harm reduction” to deal with the opioid crisis. I detailed this court ruling in my Toronto Sun column last Friday and in a video that you can watch below.
To put it bluntly, this decision by Justice Catherine Murray is horseshit and needs to be overturned.
When it is overturned, this Trudeau-appointed judge and former hotshot Crown prosecutor needs to resign. This decision alone shows that Murray has no business being on the bench and hearing serious cases.
She accepted as fact the pronouncements of activist academics and public health officials that these acts were saving lives. As I detailed in my column, at the time this was going on, opioid deaths in B.C. were going up, not down.
No one involved was saving lives; they were pushing ideology.
The same ideology is causing problems well beyond B.C. I’m working on a piece about opioids in Ontario that will be out soon. The numbers will shock anyone who only relies on the mainstream media.
We don’t need more immigration…
I wrote about this on Friday here in the newsletter and returned to the topic today in my Toronto Sun column. Despite what Mark Carney wants to tell the New York Times, we don’t need to start boosting immigration numbers.
Here are some key points from my column today.
Permanent resident numbers for 2025 are still 45% higher than a decade ago, foreign student numbers are up 75% and asylum claims, mostly from economic migrants skipping the line, are up sevenfold compared with a decade ago.
That is after Carney’s so-called immigration cuts.
So much more to say about this.
A brief interruption…
If you like taking cruises for a vacation, you need to pay attention to this.
I mentioned this a few days ago, and I won’t beat you over the head with it, but my brother who is a cruise industry expert. He spent 23 years at sea and has started his own Substack - it’s free - to offer advice on getting the most of your vaction.
My whole family loves cruising. I don’t. But I do get that many of you likely do.
If so, you need to see what David is saying.
Doug Ford was right on Chinese spy cars…
As many of you know, I took a week off in the summer for a vacation in Portugal. It was a lovely trip and I’d recommend Portugal to anyone. Lots of history, great food, beautiful cities and stunning countryside.
While I was there, I drove a Chinese spy car.
It was a BYD EV/hybrid, as were most of the rental cars on offer when I landed in Lisbon. I found it an interesting experiment.
Despite all the hype, I didn’t find the Chinese spy car to be all that it was cracked up to be, but I did see how it could be a spy car. Yes, all cars these days are equipped with cameras, sensors and microphones all over the place.
Not all of them are connected to servers back in China, though.
Last week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford was vindicated over his description of these vehicles as “spy cars”, a term some laughed at. Now, though, we have evidence from a public document put out by the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD, by German intelligence, by the British and Israeli militaries, and by Norwegian researchers about the spying capabilities of Chinese vehicles.
Mark Carney wants more Chinese EVs in Canada. He also says we are the most European of non-European countries.
If Carney wants to be Europe’s closest partner, he should start listening when Europe warns about the risks posed by Chinese vehicles.
Carney is a deceiver. We are screwed. Look at UK. Coming here.
If Carney wants to be European, he’s welcome to move there anytime, the rest of us can start the work of repairing the damage he’s done to our relationship with the Americans.