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Colby Cosh: How come it takes a right-wing convoy for courts to uphold law and order?

Having suddenly discovered a spine, the Ontario Court of Appeal came down hard on Pat King and convicted him for intimidation

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Man bites dog dep’t: Last Thursday the National Magazine of the Canadian Bar Association published an op-ed praising the Ontario Court of Appeal for an act of rock-solid common sense. A couple of weeks ago, the court overturned some Superior Court acquittals for Freedom Convoy organizer Pat King, who had been successfully convicted on mischief and other charges related to the 2022 trucker protests that besieged parts of Ottawa. But the judge trying King, the Hon. Charles Hackland, had declined to convict King on three charges related to the Criminal Code offence of “intimidation,” which can carry a sentence of up to five years’ imprisonment.

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The crime of intimidation, according to the letter of the Code (Section 423.1), is anything from a list of actions that is done “wrongfully and without lawful authority” in order to compel someone else’s action or inaction. The list........

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