A senior judge of the Federal Court of Canada has strongly objected to showing respect for Indigenous people by acknowledging their unceded traditional lands in courtroom proceedings, a common practice at the Supreme Court of Canada as well as government and corporate events.

We all should object to this. Courts must be above politics and be seen as such. It is shameful that many of our supreme court judges have declared themselves as feminist.

Justice Richard Bell was also critical of the Mi’kmaq concept known as “two-eyed seeing,” which encourages courts and other Canadian institutions to examine environmental and social issues from both Indigenous and Western perspectives.

Bell is right again. If two-eyed seeing meant prayer and biblical principles in court, the backlash would be violent. Why are aboriginal non-legal beliefs approved while Christian non-legal beliefs are ridiculed? What happened to equality? Equality when convenient, special privileges the rest of time.

He is a rare standout in a profession growing more and more demented by the day.