Opinion Martin Regg Cohn: She’s a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. How can she be so oblivious?
The plight of the “Two Michaels” might seem a distant memory for most Canadians.
For a reward of $1 million in local currency , Hong Kong has put a rapacious price on the heads of those who dare to defy its will — and that of its mainland masters. Once a colonial outpost of the British crown,with a promise of autonomy and democratization, this port city has since reincarnated itself as a vassal of the old Middle Kingdom.
Even at the time, it struck me as a curious cross-pollination of Canadian jurisprudence with Hong Kong’s intolerance. When I spoke briefly with McLachlin — after she accepted one of the innumerable awards conferred upon her for a distinguished career on the bench — she seemed unfazed by my prediction that she would soon find herself in an impossible position.
The subsequent unravelling of Hong Kong’s system of law could not have been worse. What began as a crackdown followed by a suffocation has become an eradication of democracy. McLachlin resisted, persisting in her view that “The court is completely independent and functioning in the way I am used in Canada the courts functioning.”
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