Snippet from an article at LifeSite.net:
REAL Women of Canada has produced a reality check for the Chief Justice demonstrating that the courts are already extremely politicized.
REAL Women notes that in the two-year period that former Prime Minister Paul Martin and his Minister of Justice, Irwin Cotler, were in power, the following individuals were given judicial appointments:
– Michael Brown, Mr. Cotler’s executive assistant and policy advisor;
– Yves de Montigny, Mr. Cotler’s Chief of Staff;
– Randall Echlin, the Legal Counsel to the Ontario Liberal Party;
– Rosalie Abella, (appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada), wife of Mr. Cotler’s close friend, Irving Abella;
– Marsha Erb, Alberta Liberal fundraiser, a close personal friend of Cotler’s former Cabinet colleague, Anne McLellan;
– John J. Gill, Co-chair of the 2004 Alberta federal Liberal campaign;
– Vital Ouellette, an unsuccessful Alberta provincial Liberal candidate in 1997 and 2000 elections;
– Bryan Mahoney, federal Liberal candidate who lost twice to federal Conservative MP Myron Thompson; – Edmond Blanchard, former Liberal New Brunswick Minister of Finance
And if that isn’t enough for you, former Liberal PM Paul (“I dint know nuttin”) Martin, after ensuring that all facets of Canadian life were run by liberals and sundry lefties, really loaded up just prior to the election—just in case. This, according to the good Greg Weston of the good Toronto Sun today:
[…] By our count, Martin and his gang doled out a breathtaking 212 patronage appointments—and that’s just in the two weeks before the election was called last November.
Some were relatively minor plums, but most were not.
In the category of nice work if you can get it, the list of lucky Liberal appointees includes: Civilian and military judges up to the highest echelons; a dozen ambassadors; directors of huge Crown corporations; trustees of national museums; executives of important federal agencies; immigration adjudicators; even promotions in the most senior ranks of the RCMP.
At that rate—and if voters had not kicked Martin’s butt out of office before he could do more damage—Mr. Dithers might well have matched Pierre Trudeau’s record patronage spree of almost 2,000 Liberal appointments in the year before his retirement in 1984. […]
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