# Judges Can't Define Facts: Canada's Legal Crisis

> B.C. Supreme Court ruled drug dealers' 'compassion club' claims violate Charter rights.
- Title: Judges Can't Define Facts: Canada's Legal Crisis | Shortify
- Summary: B.C. Supreme Court ruled drug dealers' 'compassion club' claims violate Charter rights. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Murray ruled Drug User…
- Keywords: b.c. supreme court, drug user liberation front, controlled drugs and substances act, charter rights, catherine murray, drug dealers, compassion club, news, politics, Judges, Can't, Define
- Source: Nationalpost — https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-if-judges-now-cant-even-tell-what-a-fact-is-were-really-cooked
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- Topics: b.c. supreme court, drug user liberation front, controlled drugs and substances act, charter rights, catherine murray, drug dealers, compassion club, news, politics
## B.C. Supreme Court Justice
Catherine Murray ruled Drug User Liberation Front's drug sales violate Charter rights despite claiming to be a compassion club.

> Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) are by any dictionary definition, and, police allege, by the criminal definition, drug dealers
## Section 5(2) of Controlled Drugs Act
Murray found Section 5(2) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act violates Section 7 and Section 15 of the Charter.

> no person shall, for the purpose of trafficking, possess (a listed prohibited) substance
## DULF's 'Compassion Club' Claim
DULF claims they screen out riff-raff and are not profit-driven drug dealers.

> They screen out the riff-raff, apparently
## Murray's Ruling Impact
Murray's 22,000-word ruling challenges Canadian government's ability to ban drug distribution without Charter violations.

> It is unreasonable to ask or expect that your average Canadian would read Murray’s 22,000-word court ruling
## Legal Crisis Deepens
Murray's ruling shows judges cannot distinguish between legal facts and criminal activity.

> If judges now can't even tell what a 'fact' is, we're cooked
## Key takeaway

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Murray ruled Drug User Liberation Front's drug sales violate Charter rights despite claiming to be a 'compassion club'.