Sentences with phrase «canadian federal appointments»

I never met Simon but he encouraged me to write about law and the Canadian federal appointments system when I was in the PMO.

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Canadian Minister of Justice and Attorney General Jody Wilson - Raybould has announced another round of judicial appointments to Federal Courts and for Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta.

Readers of this blog, and others who follow Canadian politics and law, will know that there is some controversy surrounding the appointment, by the Prime Minister of Canada, of Mr. Justice Nadon, of the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA), to the Supreme Court of Canada to fill the vacant Quebec position.

An appointment to a position for life (the moral equivalent of a «Life Lord» in England or a Senator in the Canadian Parliament, or a federal judgeship in the U.S.) is not prohibited.

Prior to his appointment to the Federal Court, he acted as counsel for the McDonald Commission, the Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (State of Competition in the Canadian Petroleum Industry) and the Dubin Commission.