That they made no complaint and knew no better would never justify such treatment.
"Tradition does not justify unconstitutional treatment," Justice Reichler wrote in her decision.
But are capital gains income, like any other, or are they different in a way that justifies different treatment?
Under international law, such actions can be used to justify similar treatment of Americans abroad.
This threat was seen as justifying preferential treatment of unionists in housing, employment and other fields.
In no way could the Spaniard justify special treatment.
The issue is sufficiently important to justify separate treatment in the following chapter.
These countries suffer from weak economic structures which justify special treatment in order to address the causes of inequality in the world.
This would have justified more emphatic treatment in the Treaties, something that did not happen.
Certainly, no good ethical case has been made to justify differential or inequitable treatment on such arbitrary grounds.