Ontario Court Justice David Marshall declares that the Ontario government's seemingly rather successful efforts to defuse the tensions at Douglas Creek Estates constitute a contempt of court. He wants his injunction against Six Nations protesters enforced -- at bayonet point, presumably -- and anything else constitutes contempt for the rule of law.
Surely it's the courts who are bringing the rule of law into contempt. They will issue these inflammatory injunctions on twenty-four hours notice, apparently. But it may be decades, if not centuries, before the courts take notice of the treaty violations and appropriations of First Nations lands that produced the barricades in the first place.
A little more rule of law would be nice. A little less bloodthirstiness from our judiciary is urgently necessary.
