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Once again, with the regularity of clockwork it seems, the B.C. Supreme Court is back at the old game of ordering police to do their job and of insulating politicians from accountability.

Usually, it’s to remove First Nations from some logging or mining road. This time it is to get rid of Camp Cloud, which was established to oppose the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion.

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Last week, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Gomery granted Burnaby an injunction ordering all structures, shelters and vehicles be removed from outside the company’s tank farm within 48 hours. He also ordered a sacred fire burning in the camp be extinguished.

The protesters ignored him.

For more than a quarter century, this injunction two-step has occurred with regularity as one level of government or another, or some giant resource company, uses the court to transform civil disobedience into contempt of court

The result, I think, is a black eye for the rule of law.