Here's what I don't get?

Why are no natives standing up for the verdict in the Colten Boushie trial?  Do all natives think they have to speak with one voice and have only one group opinion?  I know a few status Indians who read this blog and not one has said, "A jury verdict is a jury verdict, even if some of us don't like it."  The reality is natives do not identify as "Canadian".  Sad, but a fact.  They also don't want to get involved in the justice system, so it is problematic to get people who don't feel Canadian to participate. 

Had there been natives on the jury, it would have been very difficult -- if not impossible -- to get an objective verdict.  And we all know, from the universal outrage on reserves across Canada, that that would have been the case.  It would have resulted in a hung jury, not a good idea.  The accused always has the right to be tried by a jury of his peers and Stanley was not a native.  Period, the end.

And as the always-dead-on Don Martin asked the Minister of Justice yesterday, "What's next?  Will Asian-Canadians have to be tried by a jury of Asian-Canadians?"  Where does it end?  How do you manage it.  You can't. 

And I am still outraged by Trudeau and Wilson-Raybould actually having the unconstitutional gall to meet with the family and say nonsense like, "We can and should do better."  What does that mean?  That so far, juries have been useless and their verdicts wrong?  Some know-it-all wrote in response to a letter I had about this in 'The Calgary Herald' yesterday, saying that juries aren't always fair and objective.  Having been a foreman on one, I can tell you we tried our damndest to get it right, based on the admissible evidence presented.  In fact, we knew the accused was guilty, but the evidence just wasn't there, so we had no choice but to find the guy "not guilty".  The Crown had not done it's job. Yes, juries can get it wrong, but not on purpose and not because they have biases and prejudices.  Canadians just aren't like that.

For the Minister of Justice and the Prime Minister to crap on a jury is unconscionable. 

Were I Andrew Scheer, my next move would be to hold a press conference, flanked by a couple of seasoned criminal lawyers, and have them give the press and public a clinic on the Canadian justice system and severely embarrass Trudeau and Wilson-Raybould for their ignorance and interference in the process.  But Scheer won't take a position.  Does the guy not know he's in politics?  I've said it before and I'll say it again:  he will not beat Trudeau because he doesn't have "it".  It's a sad fact, but outside of Brampton, ON, and Richmond, B.C., neither will the NDP leader.  Canadians just aren't going to vote for a Sikh.  Not yet, anyway.   

Someone should put dunce hats on their heads, sit the two in the corner and make them memorize The Constitution Act of 1982.  It's all there.