Will this be another fail for Harper?

Lawyer Rocco Galati at Brampton, Ont. courthouse June 12, 2006. The Toronto lawyer who toppled a judge sworn in to the Supreme Court last year, filed a challenge to that move, and in late July the Quebec government asked the province’s top court to rule on the legality of Ottawa-based judge Robert Mainville’s appointment. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)

Judge on government’s short list for Supreme Court faces legal obstacle

The Conservative government’s attempt to move an Ottawa-based judge to Quebec has become ensnared in a legal challenge, putting in doubt the judge’s availability for a looming vacancy on the Supreme Court of Canada.

Justice Robert Mainville of the Federal Court of Appeal is a specialist in aboriginal issues who represented the James Bay Cree for 25 years as a lawyer. He was on the government’s list of six candidates for a Supreme Court vacancy last summer, a Globe investigation revealed in May.

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