Irwin Cotler is the Liberal MP for Mount Royal, former minister of justice and attorney-general of Canada, and emeritus professor of law at McGill University.
On Thursday, the Conservative government named Suzanne Côté to replace Justice Louis Lebel, who will retire from the Supreme Court of Canada in coming days. Yet Canadians remain in the dark about what, if any, process was used to make this choice.
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"... the processes that led to the appointment of Justice Clément Gascon last spring, and Ms. Côté on Thursday, have been an utter regression to the kind of closed, unaccountable, unrepresentati...ve and enigmatic approach that, 10 years ago, all parties agreed must change."\
"... the Supreme Court is regrettably diminished in the eyes of the public when its judges are selected in a way that appears downright clandestine."
"Ten years ago, Mr. MacKay and his fellow Conservatives called for ;a greater degree of transparency' in the making of Supreme Court appointments. It is regrettable that, as minister, he is not heeding his own good advice."
"Ten years ago, Mr. MacKay and his fellow Conservatives called for ;a greater degree of transparency' in the making of Supreme Court appointments. It is regrettable that, as minister, he is not heeding his own good advice."
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