The LAW as the Supreme Arbiter of Justice

I have never studied LAW. My understanding is that of a layman, and someone who has been caught on its web a few times. That’s when I learned that “ignorance of the law is no excuse”.

A quagmire of INJUSTICE.

Law in Canada according to Wikipedia

Wikipedia is not everyone’s cup of tea when is comes to a “reliable source” of information, but if you compare it the messaging from the government-subsided (bribed) media and the federal, provincial, and municipal agencies, it seems a beacon of truth. It didn’t take much hindsight to recognize those compromised public organizations as promoters of misinformation and propaganda during Covid.

A look at this Wiki link reveals an overview of Canada’s legal system. Includes is a list of the 18 different Areas of Law that exist. I always knew the legal system to be dauntingly complex. I now imagine it as a vast landscape with tens of thousands of legal booby traps set up to explode under your feet if you are unfortunate, not paying attention, or suffering from a “bad hair day”.

With one divorce and a breach of contract law under my belt (over 30 years ago), I am intimately familiar with legal booby traps that explode from time to time. The teenage daughter of one of my relatives wants to study law and eventually practice Family Law. When I first heard this, you can imagine my reaction.

According to Wikipedia…

“Canada's constitution is its supreme law, and any law passed by any federal, provincial, or territorial government that is inconsistent with the constitution is invalid.”

Pre-Covid, most Canadians naively believed that the Canadian Constitution would protect them from harms and aggression from all sources including our governments. The Bill of Rights (passed in 1961 under Conservative Prime Minster John Diefenbaker) and the Charter of Rights & Freedoms (passed under Liberal Prime Minister Trudeau in 1982) are the best known of the many Constitutional documents (about twenty).

Post-Covid, a national survey would likely find that most Canadians recently woke up to the disappointing reality of constitutional protections. Governments’ responses to the threat of the Covid virus and to any citizen who protested their Covid policies, particularly the infamous 2022 Truckers’ protest, triggered the inflection point when public confidence in the political and institutional authorities charged with keeping Canadians safe turned decidedly negative.

Whoever claimed this needs his head examined…

Instead, a crime against all Canadians must be considered and rectified by establishing and diligently enforcing as the supreme authority in Canada the Statement of Principles.

The size, cost and scope of authority held within ‘the justice system” should rightly be seen by the public and charges levied at every election poll across Canada as the CRIME OF GOVERNMENT OVERREACH.

The current “Justice system” offers NO ESCAPE for the average citizen who inadvertently gets caught in the vice of the law. It’s a GOVERNMENT MONOPOLY that confers all power to government institutions and none to individual Canadians.

The “system” creates all of the laws, has sole authority to administer and enforce them, and metes out “just” decisions according to the rules and processes created internally by unelected bureaucrats.

Then, it carries out its own judgements, including the assigned punishments, making exclusive use of public institutions which are 100% owned, staffed and operated by “the system”.

Even the lawyers are agents of “the system” that you can only side-step at your peril.

Scars remain.

I still feel anger when I recall on a hot August day in 2016 that a new building inspector came onto my property during the construction of my current home. He shut down the project due to an error made by the former building inspector who had overlooked a 1972 statue before issuing the building permit.

If the first inspector had considered that 1972 statute, a small change to the architect’s blueprint would be all that was needed to proceed with construction uninterrupted.

Several months and $1000s later, a “work-around fix” was proposed by the Building Department Director which would satisfy City policy while at my personal expense and compromise. No acknowledgment of City error, apology for its harms to me or my family, nor any compensation was ever offered for the unexpected costs and stresses we incurred.

Enforcement of City laws and regulations (building code) was the only priority that mattered.

Did the public officials who were involved in that 2016 cockup pat each other on the back for upholding “the law”?

Adding Insult to Injury.

Seven years later, after my home has been occupied without any problems or safety incidents, I received a letter from the City Building Department that informed me that my file was incomplete and needed to be updated.

According to the letter, it was MY DUTY !!!!! to ensure that the Final Inspection following the completion of my building project in 2017 had been completed.

Ignorance of the law, as well as the contents of the City’s propriety filing system and procedural rules, was no excuse for being out of step by 7 years with MY DUTY as a property owner.

Of course, this all came as a surprise to me since this was the first time I add heard of this issue in 7 years and City staff has the only access to all records in their filing system. They insisted on a Final Inspection and threatened me with consequences if I refused to comply.

After some foot-dragging and protesting, I finally complied but not without feeling the helplessness that comes when a public official imposes a demand from which I couldn’t escape.