Canadian Judges to be Trained to Ignore Black Rapists - now it's their racial right to rape White women!

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SYSTEMIC RACISM TRAINING SOUGHT FOR JUDGES

LIBERAL AND NDP MPS NOW SUPPORT CONSERVATIVE BILL

MPs amend judge sex-assault training bill to add systemic racism training, sparking new concerns

Critics worry this represents politicians trying to inject their policy preferences into judicial training, and once the door is opened, future governments will pile on

By Brian Platt Oct 28, 2020:

Liberal MP Greg Fergus, chair of "the parliamentary Black caucus."

OTTAWA — A bill that requires sexual assault training for federally appointed judges has been amended by MPs to also include training on “systemic racism and systemic discrimination” — a change some see as a troubling sign politicians will keep venturing further into judicial training.

The legislation, which has now gone through three versions in four years, has seen widespread debate in the legal community over its constitutionality. Judges are self-governed through independent bodies to insulate them from political pressure, and already have their own training programs, including on sexual assault.

Supporters of the bill argue this is simply Parliament signalling that more must be done to protect the rights of sexual assault complainants and avoid basic legal errors. They note that judicial organizations are still responsible for creating the actual training content.

BULLSHIT! WHO WILL THIS REALLY PROTECT? BLACK RAPISTS! HOW AND WHY? WELL, IN AMERICA, WHERE THEY'RE NOT SCARED OF KEEPING RACIAL CRIME STATS, WE LEARN THAT THERE'S HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF BLACK-ON-WHITE RAPES EVERY YEAR, BUT EXACTLY ZERO WHITE-ON-BLACK CASES OF RAPE - NOT EVEN IN THE MOST DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED STATES, NOR IN THE MOST BLACKEST OF CITIES, WHERE THE MAYORS, CHIEFS OF POLICE AND COPS ARE ALL BLACKS! SO WHAT WILL IT MEAN FOR A JUDGE TO BE "TRAINED" ABOUT BLACKS IN RAPE CASES? IT MEANS THEY WILL BE TOLD IT'S NEVER A BLACK RAPISTS' FAULT, THAT IT'S ALWAYS THEIR WHITE VICTIM'S FAULT, AND THAT THE BLACK RAPIST HAS A HOLY RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHT TO RAPE WHITE WOMEN (AND MEN AND BOYS) AS REPARATIONS FOR THE SLAVERY WE NEVER HAD UP HERE IN CANADA!

But critics worry the bill represents politicians trying to inject their policy preferences into judicial training, and that once the door is opened through this sex-assault training bill, future governments will pile on with their own political priorities, such as national security.

As it turns out, MPs have not even waited for the bill to get through the House of Commons before adding to it.

Liberal MP Greg Fergus told the Commons justice committee on Tuesday that his amendments are in order because the bill already required the training to consider the “social context” around sexual assault. The new language specifies that social context includes “systemic racism and systemic discrimination.” It does not include any other topics, and does not define those terms.

“I found that this offered us a good opportunity to…include other groups into the purpose of the bill,” said Fergus, who chairs the parliamentary Black caucus. “Those are the reasons why I proposed some small modifications,” he said, speaking in French.

The amendments were carried with Liberal, Conservative and NDP support, though they still need to pass in the full House of Commons and the Senate. Only Bloc Québécois MP Rhéal Fortin voted against them, saying they stray too far off track.

“It’s like we’d gone off to buy potatoes at the store, and we returned home with strawberries,” Fortin said in French. “I’m sorry, but that doesn’t work…If we want to work on a different bill than the original one, which was for training on sexual assault, and we want something different on systemic discrimination, that’s fine and well, that can be something we could do. But we’ll have to make another bill completely or reopen the witness list.”

Fortin also argued that the term “systemic racism” is a politically popular phrase right now, but it’s not clear to everyone what it means.

Arif Virani, the parliamentary secretary to the justice minister, responded that there is wide social consensus around the phrase as it applies to institutions, and it “reflects sort of where we are as a nation, as a continent.”

Liberal MP James Maloney said that Fortin’s concerns about judicial independence could also be applied to the original bill, which Fortin supports. “We’ve crossed that threshold, Mr. Fortin,” Maloney said.

The legislation amends the Judge’s Act to require judges “undertake to participate in continuing education” on sexual assault and social context, and requires that the Canadian Judicial Council develop the training “with persons, groups or organizations the Council considers appropriate, such as sexual assault survivors and groups and organizations that support them.” It requires the Council to report to Parliament on when the seminars were given and how many judges attended.

The first version was introduced by former Conservative leader Rona Ambrose in 2017, but it stalled in the Senate in 2019 over concerns of judicial independence. It was largely rewritten in the Senate, mainly by Sen. Pierre Dalphond, a former Quebec judge, who scaled back some of the more intrusive parts of the bill.

However, procedural wrangling kept the bill from advancing and it died on the 2019 election call. Justice Minister David Lametti revived it in February as government legislation, but that bill also died when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prorogued Parliament in August.

Dalphond told National Post that from what he understands of the amendments, they’re acceptable to him since they only mention systemic racism as one part of the social context, not the whole definition. He also said that in his experience, systemic racism is already an important part of judicial training. But he warned that Parliament must not go too far in attempting to direct the training or influence the content.

“The shorter the better,” Dalphond said about the legislation.

Asked for comment, Ambrose replied with a statement that did not mention the systemic racism amendment. “I know victims of sexual assault are thankful that MPs are working together to get this bill passed,” she said. “I hope it passes without delay.”

Lametti’s office also did not comment directly on the amendment, but said the justice minister “fully agrees with the need to take action to address systemic racism in Canada’s justice system.”

A spokesperson from the Canadian Judicial Council said that “Canada has arguably the best program of judicial education in the world,” and for that reason the Council has always thought the bill is unnecessary.

“That said, the Council is pleased that the (justice committee) appears to have accepted the judiciary’s suggestions on how to improve the bill to ensure it meets its laudable objectives while still preserving judicial independence,” the statement said.

Many in the legal profession are deeply concerned about the precedent the bill sets. Gib van Ert, a lawyer who was executive legal officer at the Supreme Court of Canada from 2015 to 2018, wrote in Maclean’s in February that governments should not be legislating training for judges, because once it starts it might never end.

“Why not put a few more required courses on the judges’ curriculum?” van Ert wrote rhetorically at the time. “Why not train our judges in systemic racism, Indigenous laws and rights, climate change, national security and counterterrorism, border security and unlawful migration?”

His essay turned out to be prescient.

“Of course, judges should learn about sexual assault and systemic racism,” van Ert told the Post on Tuesday. “They already do, through their own judge-led training programs. The problem lies in the training being mandated by politicians. When people go to court they need to feel their judge isn’t just thinking and doing what the government tells them to. 

They need to believe judges are independent. I continue to think this is a bad precedent.”