As in an 11 year old native girl now has the legal right to refuse white man’s medicine which would in all probability cure her.
Can you just imagine if the reverse was true – what if an 11 old native girl was denied white man’s medicine which would in all likelihood cure her.
There would be hell to pay.
But here we have a Judge deciding the Charter of Rights can be interpreted to give the little girl and her parents the right to sign her death certificate and this is just what the medical experts say will happen if she does not receive timely chemo therapy.
The only good that will come out of this is that finally a Judge will have to live publicly with his boneheaded decision.
Not that this good in any way compensates for the girl’s loss of life. It won’t.
But it will look good on a Judge having to live his life knowing that a decision of his – where he made new law through interpretation –as is their want – has snuffed out a young life.
We have laws on the books now that compel parents and those in parental authority to provide children with the necessities of life. This should be the test applied here and the fact that it is not, is simply a tragedy.
At 11, the girl is far too young to even have a say in this. If we were dealing with an adult – it would be entirely different – an adult can make such decisions for themselves.
So dear Judge – continue to interpret away but know that there are some dire consequences for your so doing.
As I see it …
‘K.D. Galagher’
