Progressive politicians, most notably Justin Trudeau, have paid careful attention to judicial appointments, ensuring that their ideology informs Canada’s justice system over the long term even after they leave power.
One such appointee is Supreme Court Justice Sheilah Martin. In the recent
case R v. Kruk dealing with a 2017 charge of sexual assault, Charles Kruk
was convicted of raping an intoxicated woman he had taken to his home but claimed the alleged assault did not happen.
A British Columbia judge ruled in 2020 that the alleged victim was likely telling the truth, noting, “She said she felt his penis inside her and she knew what she was feeling. In short, her tactile sense was engaged. It is extremely unlikely that a woman would be mistaken about that feeling.” The case was appealed on the grounds that this was “speculative reasoning,”
and ended up before the Supreme Court, where Justice Martin decided,
bizarrely, to take issue with the trial judge’s use of the world “woman.”
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