Wobblie wrote:
It would also be nice if they explained that Canada is a common law country, which means that by  definition "judge-made law" is part of our legal tradition. You know, something we inherited from our colonial past.

Maybe we should give our judges the title "Royal Canadian Justice" to remind people of that "important link" to our colonial past - after all we've now reverted to the Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Air Force, and I'm sure there are plans afoot to resurrect the Royal Canadian Postal Corps, the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, the Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps and the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps.

Except under our "colonial common law", the common law was always subject to Parliament.  Parliament could, and frequently did, change, amend or replace the common law by statute.

I do not like this decision.  I'm uncertain about Insite, but will admit there are certainly a number of positives to be said in its favour.  But it's a complex social policy that I really think belongs within the political, not judicial, sphere.