[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_...al)_v._Bedford

It's the recent case that resulted in Canada's prostitution laws being thrown out effective next year. What MQ-S is saying is that if the Supreme Court was merely a pawn of the sitting government of the day, then the outcome of that case would have been different as it clearly was not the ruling The Harper Government wanted.

Exactly,

5 of 9 justices that heard the case were appointed by Harper. If the SCC was a political pawn, those 5 would have sided with Harper's ideals and not the laws as written.