Justice Paul Schabas claims there is a Charter right to bike lanes based entirely off his own political view.

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When Pierre Trudeau was sitting down with the premiers to draft the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, they weren’t talking about the Charter right to bike lanes.

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But that didn’t stop activist lawyer turned activist judge Paul Schabas from deciding that there is a Charter right to bike lanes.

“Justice” Paul Schabas of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice said that the Ford government, which passed legislation to remove certain bike lanes and which won an election on this issue, cannot move forward.

Let’s just fold tents and let people like “Justice” Schabas run our lives and give up on elections – it seems to be what he wants.

In his decision, Justice Schabas relies heavily on the idea of positive rights,........

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