When Justice Kenneth Affleck jailed a senior who was honestly motivated to improve the world, the judge was following a long-established Canadian legal tradition. It dictates: Punishment need not fit the crime when the perpetrator is a white-collar criminal or a senior officer of a wealthy corporation.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/video/2026/06/18/prime-minister-carney-and-premier-eby-make-landmark-housing-agreement/ A contrast. What too often happens when a threatened population refuses to look anywhere else for solutions to complex…