Consequences of Rae

Breath a sigh of relief. The Supreme Court of Canada has given its decision on the consequences of misconduct of a spouse in divorce proceedings. If they didn't rule on the consequences of actions or bad behaviour in a divorce case then it would obliterate the psychological effects of emotional abuse in domestic relationships.

To prove the wife ended up with the symptoms of a mental illness due to her trauma was the defense's arguement why she shouldn't get alimony in the first place. That she ended up bitter and obsessive sounds like the symptoms of trauma from lack of a sense of justice. If there were no closure she would have ended up - God forbid - in the Canadian mental health system - where she surely would end up with a serious mental illness if she didn't have a bona fide one in the first place trying to deal with the luck of the draw.

I know the S.C.C has made a decision to open up a divorce decision - when an individual was taken advantage of, but specifically I'm waiting for the S.C.C to decide on misconduct by the State in divorce proceedings.

Yes, removal or denial of the access to proper legal services can and has caused trauma for individuals causing the symptoms of mental illness mostly due to the sense of a lack of justice - such as denial of legal aid certificates by mismanagement of legal aid funds by the Law Society, corruption of opposing lawyers, corruption of advocating lawyer, corruption of Legal Aid Ontario, having no lawyer present a client when attending court - all against the person's will, undermining Charter rights, and in general being taken advantage of by a 'questionable legal system'.

I'm waiting to exhale on that one - but not until the government comes up with some statistics on how many people in Ontario were adversely affected - with emotional trauma - by the legal aid cuts in 1997 that were precipitated by the mismanagement of legal aid funds by the Ontario Legal Aid Plan (OLAP) while it was under the umbrella of of the Law Society who "lost" $100 million dollars in 1994, which is still "not accounted for " today.

Back in 1994 when Bob Rae was Ontario's Premiere, he didn't have the mind to order a forensic audit to find out where the money went to back then while Allan Rock was the treasurer of the Law Society of Ontario. It took another four years to remove legal aid from the jaws of the Law Society - but not before the provincial Conservative government n Ontario commissioned a report to do so, which was enough evidence to support that mismanagement was the rationale to pull it from the LSUC.

But Rae, not inquiring why so much money was lost was just a foreshadowing of the Liberal mismanagement to come. This is why it makes complete sense to me that Rae is now vying to be leader of the federal Liberal Party. He's with the old dogs with their old ways of leadership that continue to lift their legs and piss over the people of Canada - like he did to Ontarians - for many, the reasons mentioned above.