SCOC Choice Panel

Paul Martin: More Appearance of Democracy without Substance

The National Post reported today, Oct. 13, that there is a push for an aboriginal appointee. MP Vic Toews wants to choose based on merit, not gender nor ethnicity.

Guess what the PM will choose.

Cotler names panel to choose SCOC vacancy AP, Oct. 12, 05

[. . . . ] The advisory committee named by Cotler includes, in addition to Toews, Liberal MP Anita Neville, Richard Marceau of the Bloc Quebecois and Joe Comartin of the NDP.

Also on the panel are: Allan McEachern, retired chief justice of British Columbia; Brent Cotter, former deputy attorney general of Saskatchewan; Garth Smorang, president of the Manitoba Law Society; Chester Cunningham, an Alberta Metis activist and Barbara Pollock, vice-president of the University of Regina.

Search: Cotler has already begun private consultations with Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin

All in the spirit of maintaining CONTROL!

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