Like other National Post writers, I consume a fair amount of column inches criticizing judges. This is only right, since the organs of public opinion are about the only form of accountability to which judges are ever subject: we are, not by our own choice, a thin, ink-black line of last-ditch defence against their errors and depredations. But of course, there are occasions on which a scribbling, babbling observer of the law can only sympathize with these gowned drudges, and I encountered one such occasion while perusing a decision issued last week by Alberta King’s Bench Justice Colin Feasby.

Feasby’s ruling represents the outcome of the first skirmish in what’s sure to be a litigation war of some duration and complexity. There are a handful of people in Alberta who want the province to

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