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May 30: Trans Mountain and Charles Dickens

Re: “Appeal court rules B.C. can’t limit oil shipments on Trans Mountain,” May 25. We can thank Charles Dickens for bringing to print the expression: “The law is an ass.

Re: “Appeal court rules B.C. can’t limit oil shipments on Trans Mountain,” May 25.

We can thank Charles Dickens for bringing to print the expression: “The law is an ass.”

Never has the expression been more appropriate than in the recent ruling of the B.C. Court of Appeal about the Trans Mountain pipeline where the law trumps common sense, common decency, Indigenous rights, the future of our children, of our grandchildren and probably of our planet.

Roger Allen

Victoria