What just happened.
I'm going to answer the question I asked you earlier. There are gadzillions of right wing lawyers in Canada. Most of them are tax lawyers and corporate lawyers.
Canadian criminal law isn't politically polarized, like in the US. Sentencing has to contain at least a nod to rehabilitation of the convict. That nod can be huge, with a 19 year old first offender with a drug habit who was led astray by bad friends. Or it can be minute with a 35 year old multi-repeat fraudster. But there has to be some consideration. That's the law. It's been restated many times over the last century or so.
But there's no faction of rightie judges trying to roll that back. That's an American thing. Most lawyers who do any sort of litigation know how sentencing law is structured and what's "against the rules". I understand that the Quebec CA also struck down the Harper provision.
Police officers swear an oath that they will be impartial in investigating complaints, but in reality, they often act in the best interests of themselves, the police department, and other police officers, often to the detriment of the accused. There are some police officers who think their job is similar to that of a litigator in civil law, in that they consider someone who calls 911 and wants to have someone arrested to be their client, and they only collect evidence that can be used against the accused.
The Crown and the police department are often 'strange bedfellows', in that the prosecutor in a criminal case is often more interested in winning a case than in seeing to it that Justice and due process are properly served.
Defense attorneys are usually biased in favour of their clients. They will try to win acquittals for clients whom they personally believe are guilty of the crimes of which they are accused, by questioning whether the
Fortunately, most Canadian trial Judges have been chosen* because they have no vested person interest in the outcome of cases tried before them. They are familiar with prosecution and defense tactics, and they are able to filter out the dog and pony show aspects of the legal circus, and consider only the facts and evidence.
* The Legal system is very different in the United States, because Judges are elected, as opposed to being appointed in Canada.