Calgary judge rips Trump's narco boat strikes while sentencing accused trafficker

Subhead:Sheila Gunn Reid and Lise Merle slam a Calgary judge's decision to needlessly weigh in on the Trump administration's effort to stamp out drug smuggling while handing out a light sentence to an accused trafficker.# YouTube-embed:1psWAXkU-SQ A Calgary judge is drawing criticism after taking a shot at the Trump administration's efforts to curb drug trafficking through targeted strikes on alleged narco boats. Justice Harry Van Harten weighed in on the issue in the case of a woman accused of trafficking fentanyl, citing an article published by a history professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo lamenting “the indiscriminate use of military force to kill people without regard to the rules of marine, martial, international, and American law.” On Wednesday's Buffalo Roundtable , Rebel News' weekly Western Canada focused livestream, hosts Sheila Gunn Reid and Lise Merle said the judge's light sentence for the accused trafficker and needless geopolitical commentary highlighted the need for judges to be accountable to voters.