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Sephirstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-13-03 07:19 PM
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Emily Murphy was our first female judge here in Canada...
Unfortunately, she was also one of the biggest conservative idiots to ever take up the bench. She actually believed and disseminated all of the lies racist reactionaries were spreading about marijuana.

She was known as one of the earliest Drug War advocates here in Canada.

I used to respect her, but now I hate the *censored*.

It's like discovering that our first female Prime Minister is so inept that she finished in last place in a leadership convention run by a corrupt wing-nut like Bill Vander Zalm.
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-13-03 08:09 PM
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1. You might want to mention
that she was a judge in 1916.

Don't judge yesterday by today.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-13-03 08:22 PM
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-13-03 08:43 PM
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3. If you did you'd know
she made an important contribution to Canada.

And she didn't think any differently than anyone else in her era.
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