New process for appointing Supreme Court judges: 12 questions

The first question is: What is the evidence that the current system is not working properly?

There's little evidence that the previous process for selecting Supreme Court justices produced bad decisions, and it will be difficult to assess whether it gets better under the new system, writes Edward Whitcomb. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY EDWARD WHITCOMB

August 22, 2016

OTTAWA—The government's decision to establish an advisory board to make recommendations for the appointment of Supreme Court justices is probably a step in the right direction, but it raises many questions, and we may never know for sure if the new process actually produces a "better" court. The...

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