New cabinet committee signals shift in litigation strategy: Cotler

Committee chair Dominic LeBlanc assigned as a ‘babysitter’ to the justice minister, say Tories.
Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and Sport and Disabilities Minister Carla Qualtrough, both lawyers, are members of the new Litigation Management Cabinet Committee.
The Trudeau government’s new Cabinet Committee on Litigation Management is likely a first in Canada, and could signal a new approach to the way the government handles lawsuits, says former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler.

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