Harper's Conservative Corruption of the Canadian Supreme Court Judicial selection process.

Harper's Conservatives changed the Canadian Supreme Court Judicial selection process to enable the federal government to remove all candidate Supreme Court Judicial who are NOT favourable towards the federal government leadership and who are less likely to hold the federal government leadership accountable.

“the majority of voting members are now appointed by the minister” and the judicial appointments advisory committees “may neither be, nor be seen to be, fully independent of the government.”

Former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant is more blunt about where the decision is actually made: “the responsibility for judicial appointments is well entrenched in the PMO.”



The following attached article starts out rather dry and uninteresting until you get to the section about Selecting the selectors. Please bare in mind this article directs towards a legal framework to challenge the corrupted Canadian Supreme Court Judicial selection process. Please remember this when reading this article
The only public guideline to choosing appointment committee members is that “the Minister of Justice attempts to reflect factors appropriate to each jurisdiction including geography, language, multiculturalism, and gender.”
canadianlawyermag.com/5266/Cracking-the-system

In late 2006, the Conservative government rewrote the rules for the composition of the committees. Now each regional committee consists of eight members:

•     a nominee of the provincial or territorial law society;

•     a nominee of the provincial or territorial branch of the Canadian Bar Association;

•     a judge nominated by the chief justice of the province or by the senior judge of the territory;

•     a nominee of the provincial attorney general or territorial minister of justice;

•     a nominee of the law enforcement community; and,

•     three nominees of the federal minister of justice representing the general public.

In 2006, the Conservative government added the nominee from the law enforcement community, who is also chosen ad hoc by the federal government.