Last month in The duty, the president of the Canadian Bar Association Quebec section (CBA-Quebec), Martine Burelle, attacked the work of examining judges in which I have been engaged for a long time. Instead of wondering if our justice system is unfair to Quebec, Ms.me Burelle defends the regime.
judge and party
Take the example of Nicole Duval-Hesler, whom ABC-Quebec defended. I filed a complaint against the Chief Justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal. In 2019, this court had to decide whether or not to suspend Law 21. Or Duval-Hesler was a member of the Lord Reading association. She was challenging the State Secularism Act in court and she should have recused herself. Not only did she not, but she was due to give a talk at a Lord Reading fundraising event, which was canceled following my complaint.
Obviously, this situation posed no problem for the Canadian Bar, Quebec section, which also militates against secularism. The organization denounces the use of the derogation clause which partially protects Bill 21 from invalidation by federal judges. For the lawyers of ABC-Quebec, Quebecers, it is abominable that the elected representatives of their nation prevent the magistrates of Ottawa from invalidating our laws in our exclusive jurisdictions! According to them, this gesture is scandalous even if the charter was imposed on us by the English provinces and Ottawa during the repatriation.
anglicization
The purpose of this charter is not to protect our rights, but rather to deny our existence as a nation. It imposes Canadian bilingualism on us, to anglicize Quebec, as well as Canadian multiculturalism, to reduce us to the rank of some minority. If this last principle is called into question by law 21, it is the first that is attacked by law 96.
ABC-Québec opposes this legislation and, oh surprise!, the organization also attacked me in this case. My crime? I criticized Judge Chantal Corriveau. The one who describes herself as a “visceral” federalist suspended part of Bill 96. This is what all opponents of the French fact want, whether it be Mesdames Burelle and Corriveau, the judges of the Supreme Court, Justin Trudeau or all the others whose task it is to impose the regime on us.
Martine Burelle also pleads in favor of the diversity of the judiciary. However, this is anything but diverse. Quebec jurists who defend French, secularism or sovereignty will never have access to it. As Michel Robert said when he was chief justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal, sovereignists are proscribed. In the country of the Canadian charter, judges who are supposed to defend our rights openly encourage discrimination against certain members of our nation.
This flagrant injustice is of no concern to ABC-Québec. This group of lawyers is as biased as the magistrates it defends. There is no doubt that several of its members will be appointed judges by Ottawa over the next few years, starting with Martine Burelle.