Canada's Judicial Disappointment Process

In this paper, I will be arguing that Canada’s judicial appointment process should be looked over carefully and revised. I’ll be arguing three main ideas throughout this paper, as well I will be giving some interest and some points in my introduction. The process for the judicial appointment is first going through the commissioner for federal judicial affairs and executive director and after that they check the expression of interest and eligibility and so on it goes to the provincial and territorial court judges after they approve and done with it, many judicial advisory committees come to play and review the “change of law” even more, and to finalize it they look at it and review it carefully before making it a new law. Looking at Canada’s …show more content…
“This had led to the charge that there is now greater scope for the Minister of Justice to select judges on a partisan basis — although even when there was a “highly recommended” category we had no idea as to whether judges were being selected from that category or the “recommended” category” (Mercury, 2013), This is a prime example of what I mean and what the judicial appointment really looked like and how it was ran, mostly confusing and bias. The topic is really important to all citizens living in Canada because everyone wants follow a set of rules and morals but we only want to follow them if the make sense and we have to hire people that have a great knowledge in these kind of situations, because at the end of the day the people that are getting hired are just people and have the same kind of mind set and have to think about the rest of the million people living in Canada, we are relying on them to make vital decisions for our …show more content…
The Federal judicial appointment is a bit broad when you look at the criteria for changing a law or even when making a new law. Many old laws had to be changed because of how many loop holes and how opaque it had been written. Usually other judicial appointments have many different people with different occupations such as defense lawyers, police representatives, judges and etc. This helps make efficient laws because everyone sees everything in their own point of view and they could all help each other write them or even help them change up a law because of what their field of study taught them. However, rather than starting the discussion about how weak the judicial appointment is and criticizing it with the many changes Harper has made, it probably might be really helpful if we found solutions to upgrade the judicial appointment and how to change up routines and criteria. Taking it step by step to change the criteria and make it really straight forward and to the point and to mostly leave no more for improvement. “How do we minimize the potential for undue partisan influences in the process; and what mechanisms are available to build transparency and confidence?” (Mercury, 2013) closely looking at the questions the author is significantly trying to see the cause of the problem and trying to fix and explains what they