Judicial activism - meddlers

"...although I was one of the many who predicted that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, adopted in 1982, would turn our judges into chronic and often idiosyncratic meddlers in almost every aspect of life. 

"The recent Supreme Court of Canada judgments on strikes in the public sector and assisted suicide have confirmed this widespread fear..."

"In this legislative vacuum, courts, usually with feckless glee, interpret generally formulated rights according to their own tastes in social policy or the state of current opinion."

From:  Supreme Court on the loose - Conrad Black - National Post - Feb 14, 2015