Hurray - it's about time. The Supreme Court of Canada's ruling yesterday on the extradition to the United States of two accused killers aims for an unusually broad audience, and it deserves one. The judgment addresses not just Canadians but, implicitly, also Americans and people in all countries where capital punishment persists. The Canadian public, not to mention law-enforcement authorities, will feel a real sense of relief at yesterday's balanced Supreme Court ruling on child pornography. The court upheld the ban on possession of child porn.
Possession is wrong because it creates a market for the product.
The apprehension of harm is reason enough to act. The Supreme Court ruling that upholds Canada's child-pornography law means 20 suspended cases in Quebec can proceed. Since Robert Latimer started serving a life sentence three weeks ago, Jamie Bassett's phone has been ringing off the hook. Boucher, largely unknown outside Canada until now, placed No. 71 in Stuff magazine's list of the 100 most dangerous men on Earth. The Quebec government should institute a new system of bilingual high schools open to all Quebecers in a bid to break down the remaining barriers between Quebec's two solitudes, says prominent civil-rights lawyer Julius Grey.