07-09-2017 03:22 via edmontonjournal.com

Paula Simons: Build bridges, not walls, says Canada's chief justice

Beverley McLachlin never once said Donald Trump’s name.
But then, Canada’s famously discreet chief justice didn’t have to.
McLachlin was at the University of Alberta on Wednesday to deliver the department of philosophy’s annual public lecture. 
Ostensibly, the lecture was about landmark moments in Canada’s 150-year constitutional history.
But McLachlin, who steps down as chief justice of Canada’s Supreme Court this December, delivered an implicit rebuttal
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