Zuzak
GRC Report; Wed., Mar. 01, 2006
(1)
SS in Britain:
Once again on the weekend of 04Feb2006, hate propaganda against the
Halychyna Division emanated from Britain via articles in the BBC News,
the
Independent and the London Guardian. Anatoli K. submitted a Ukraine
connection
in the 22Feb2006 issue of e-Poshta. These are archived as items 17 to
20 at
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/articles/ss3britain.html
(2)
Supreme Court of Canada appointment: On 23Feb2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper
announced that his
nominee to the Supreme Court of Canada (to replace retiring John Major)
was
Marshall Rothstein, a judge in the Federal Court of Appeal. On
27Feb2006, there
was full TV coverage of his delicate questioning by an ad-hoc
parliamentary
committee. Although I found the TV, radio and newspaper coverage
reasonably
educational, I was astounded that no one at that time (or since) has
referred
to Mr. Rothstein’s Jewish origins.
Neither
has anyone pointed out that of the
last four Supreme Court appointments, three of them have been of Jewish
origin.
These are Morris Fish (05Aug2003), Rosalie Silberman Abella (30Aug2004)
and
Marshall Rothstein (01Mar2006). The other six are evenly divided into
what I
would call the British Empire Loyalists and the French-Quebec
Representatives:
Beverley McLachlin (30Mar1989), William Binnie (08Jan1998), Louise
Charron
(30Aug2004) and Michel Bastrache (30Sep1997), Louis LeBel (07Jan2000),
Marie
Deschamps (07Aug2002). Five of the judges appear to be associated with
Quebec.
This
breakdown does, indeed, appear to be
representative of the power structure in Canada, but what about the
rest of
Canadians? -- the various
ethnic groups,
the various peoples of different skin color (so-called visible
minorities), the
various religions? Should not the Supreme Court of Canada reflect the
demographics of Canada? Would not a person of Muslim faith of Pakistani
origin,
or of Hindu faith with origins in India, or of Chinese or Japanese
ancestry
broaden the perspective of the Supreme Court of Canada? Will the
original
native inhabitants of Canada ever be represented in our legal system? In my opinion, the present
composition of the
Supreme Court of Canada is simply unhealthy.
Marshall
Rothstein was born on 25Dec1940 in
Winnipeg and married Sheila Dorfman from Montreal on 12Jun1966. His
father
emigrated from Poland to Yorkton, Saskatchewan and his mother from
Belarus to
Winnipeg after(?) WWI. Upon obtaining a Bachelor of Commerce degree and
being
elected president of the University of Manitoba Students’ Union, he
started his
law degree. He entered private practice and was a member of the
Canadian Human
Rights Tribunal from 1986 to 1992. He was made a judge of the Federal
Court of
Canada on 24Jun1992 and was appointed to the Federal Court of Appeal on
21Jan1999 by Anne McLellan.
From
the Federal Judicial Affairs website
at http://www.fja.gc.ca/
a
list of written decisions of Mr. Rothstein is available at http://www.fja.gc.ca/jud_app/JR/2_00_e.html
.
From
1993 to 2002 in the Federal Court, a
majority (143 of 263) cases were involved with Citizenship and
Immigration
(CIC). These are normally associated with prospective immigrants
seeking
refugee status, work visas, landed immigrant status, etc. In 2002 the
vast
majority of these decisions appear to favour the CIC bureaucracy
against the
individual. (I only found one case involving a woman from Saratov,
Russia
asking for a permanent resident visa in the entrepreneur category,
which
favoured the individual.)
Of
particular interest is the case of
Zundel v. Attorney General with CHRC as intervenor (T-2765-96,
17Sep1997),
wherein the CHRC demands that Ernst Zundel be compelled to attend a
cross-examination on his affidavits. Mr. Rothstein rules against Mr.
Zundel.
(Not listed amongst the written decisions of the Federal Court of
Appeal is the
hearing on 14Oct2004 in front of Mr. Rothstein on the refusal of Judge
Pierre
Blais to recuse himself from the Ernst Zundel “security certificate”
case on grounds
of conflict of interest and bias. The ruling on 23Nov2004 obviously
went
against Mr. Zundel, since Mr. Blais eventually ruled that the “security
certificate” was valid and Mr. Zundel was eventually deported to
Germany.
(See A-534-04, 204 FCA 394 by Letourneau,
Rothstein and Noel, Date: 20041123)
From
1999 to 2006 in the Federal Court of
Appeal almost 10% (17 of 200) of the decisions were CIC cases. Once
again of
the cases examined all decisions favoured the CIC bureaucracy.
Of
particular concern is Sogi v. CIC
(A-597-03, 2004 FCA 212), wherein Mr. Rothstein upholds the decision of
Andrew
MacKay (of Helmut Oberlander and Wasyl Odynsky infamy) to withhold
evidence
from the appellant Sogi on grounds of national security.
Will Zuzak, 2006-03-01