![]() He was looking after a doctor's house when the doctor and his wife were in Mexico. For example, this lawyer Robert McIntosh was murdered in Squamish. Time and money is being devoured.īW: Nowadays Section 56 of the Young Offenders' Act says, 'The young person is under no obligation to give a statement to a police officer.' Would you change that? In a criminal trial today, the motions to suppress evidence are as important as the trial itself. They've taken it further than the Americans have gone in suppressing truthful evidence in court. ![]() Since the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms came in-and it's a good Charter about freedom of expression and political liberties-the legal rights section has been taken too far by the Supreme Court of Canada. I had to own up to what I did.īW: Do you seriously believe that we were better off in the old days? It scared the hell out of me - that interview - and as a result of that, my criminal career was nipped in the bud. He's frowning at me and interrogating me. So this big, burly, bluff, corpulent policeman shows up at our door. My father got a police officer to call on me. Macdonald: I stole apples off a neighbour's tree. "If I'd won, I would have had to buy a new pair of pants." īW: You had your first brush with the law at age eleven. Intending to raise the 'mirth rate', Alex Macdonald recently ran for the position of chancellor at SFU where he teaches constitutional law. ![]() Supreme Court rulings trample on the constitutional powers of Parliament. Juries are unduly denied access to information about previous convictions of the accused. The Young Offenders Act 'thwarts natural justice.' He'd like two or three places on the Supreme Court to be reserved for non-lawyers. ![]() Macdonald believes the right to silence of the accused is extremely problematic. But some liberals might view Macdonald's litany of witty fulminations as fuel for Reformist fires of resentment. "I wish not to be a Cassandra, spouting doom and gloom to no effect," says the former NDP Attorney-General. Alex Macdonald has catalogued countless affronts to common sense from the annals of Canadian jurisprudence in Outrage: Canada's Justice System on Trial (Raincoast $26.95). ![]()
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