Quebec to have say on its Supreme Court picks

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It is the first time since the court was established in 1875 that a province has had its own appointment process

. Quebec is the only province that by law has three seats reserved for it, a reflection of its separate, civil legal code. By convention, three seats are for Ontario, two for the West and one for Atlantic Canada.

The country’s top court has long been derided in Quebec as a Tower of Pisa – leaning in one direction only, towards Ottawa. But while the move may strengthen the court’s perceived legitimacy in Quebec and shield it from criticism by nationalists, it may open the federal government to complaints of special treatment.“It’s just one more example of the federal government making a special deal with Quebec that isn’t available to the other provinces,” he said in an e-mail to The Globe and Mail.

“I would say it’s a decent compromise,” Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens, a law professor at the University of Montreal, said in an interview. Joanna Baron, executive director of the Calgary-based Canadian Constitution Foundation, said a future government would be free to modify the Quebec-only process.

 

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