I think the opportunity existed in the country in 2001 for the Supreme Court of Canada to show some leadership on this issue. The ruling in Regina v. Advance Cutting and Coring should have admonished the Quebec legislature, the judicial system, and the police for failing to enforce the Criminal Code and the rule of law. People who perpetrated the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in vandalism, with one union fiefdom warring against another union fiefdom, should have been investigated, prosecuted, and if found guilty put in jail. Instead they said we should force all workers into five unions. That's how we'll stop the violence. That's what the Cliche commission was about, ultimately. Lebel's decision and the majority in Advance Cutting and Coring reviews this history of union violence as a basis for justifying stripping charter rights.
