Supreme Court opens with chief justice’s call to protect democracy as polarization deepens

‘We need to find new ways to protect our democratic institutions because the pressures facing our institutions are unrelenting,’ says Canada’s Chief Justice Richard Wagner at a ceremony marking the opening of the judicial year.
Canada's Chief Justice Richard Wagner, pictured in June 2023, marked the Supreme Court's opening ceremony for the judicial year on Oct. 5 in the court's new temporary home, Ottawa West Memorial Building.

Canada’s top justice and federal justice minister warned the country is facing threats to the rule of law in an “ever-changing world" during a ceremony to mark the opening of the Supreme Court’s judicial year on Oct. 5—held, for the first time, in Ottawa’s West Mem...

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