Vic Toews on Supreme Court nominations...
One of the nice things about the political Canadian system is that we have a written record to track of what our nation's politicians say. (Oh that we had less that went on behind closed doors!) It gets particularly interesting when we politicians move from one side of government to the other, in a "then and now" kind of way. I can't wait to hear David "Unprincipled Bastard" Emerson when Parliament sits again, for instance.
That said, PoliticsWatch has a fun little piece that outlines the questioning between then Opposition justice critic Vic Toews and then Justice Minister Irwin Cotler on the process the Liberal government laid out for the selection of Supreme Court judges.
Money quote:
That said, PoliticsWatch has a fun little piece that outlines the questioning between then Opposition justice critic Vic Toews and then Justice Minister Irwin Cotler on the process the Liberal government laid out for the selection of Supreme Court judges.
Money quote:
There is no public input. There is simply a confirmation by this nominating committee of one of the five or eight people the government has picked out. How is this in any way different from what already goes on?
It's going to be interesting to here the new Justice Minister Toews defend the new government's use of essentially the same process.
