• Kecessa
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    1 year ago

    You’re missing the point, Canadian judges don’t have to tell which party they support so there’s no expectation from them and it’s much harder to make a call before the case begins what the judges’ opinion will be even if they’ve been put in place by a specific party.

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      1 year ago

      American Supreme Court justices don’t have to tell which party they support either.

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        Not really, it happens pretty often that the supreme court rules against what would be the wish of the government and it’s pretty sad that a Canadian would believe otherwise.

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          supreme court rules against what would be the wish of the government

          Can you site an example of that? I mean where the supreme court rules that the legislature can’t do something that it tried to do. Not just the executive excercising power it doesn’t have. From my understanding, in the Canadian system the legislature effectively has absolute power as it is the directly elected body and meant to represent the will of the people.