Whenever you’re depressed about judicial activism in America, just take a look at Canada. A Quebec court has upheld the power of the courts to intervene in family discipline:
A Quebec father who was taken to court by his 12-year-old daughter after he grounded her in June 2008 has lost his appeal.
Quebec Superior Court rejected the Gatineau father’s appeal of a lower court ruling that said his punishment was too severe for the wrongs he said his daughter committed. . .
In its ruling, issued Monday, the province’s court of appeal declared the girl was caught up in a “very rare” set of circumstances, and her father didn’t have sufficient grounds to contest the court’s earlier decision.
(Via the Corner.)
Quebec, it seems, is a very silly place.
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