Rowe’s Supreme Court appointment shows bilingualism requirement not unreasonable

To read and listen to some of the commentary, one might have thought the prime minister had sent his headhunting committee on a quest for a unicorn.
There's no reason to expect that qualified Supreme Court judges who are bilingual cannot be found from any region in Canada, writes Chantal Hébert.
MONTREAL—As Justice Malcolm Rowe—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first appointee to the Supreme Court—fielded a barrage of questions from MPs and senators on Tuesday, there was nothing to suggest that he was not a flesh-and-blood person. And yet, only a few months ago, a legal creatur...

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