Justice Abella speaks for all Canadians

Re Justice delivers call to action, May 23 How fortunate we are to see a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada bravely speaking out on past and current evils in the world, and how we must try to speak out against these regressions, for the good of all humanity.

Justice Rosalie Abella is to be commended not only for her views on social justice, but also for the courage to speak out and call all of us to action.

We must not just stand by and watch in horror as equal rights and the progress that has been made in the past few decades are trampled slowly to death. Women’s rights, immigrants’ rights and human rights for all have been hard-won and we must at least be aware when these rights are in real danger.

Thanks, Justice Abella, for speaking up and standing up for all of us — in friendly academic territory, but reaching out to the U.S., no longer a secure “land of the free.” We need more role models, from all levels of governments everywhere. Della Golland, Toronto