Three Judges Must Be From Quebec
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:03 am
In Canada, it is an unspoken rule of judicial appointment that three of the nine Supreme Court Justice positions must go to Quebec.
I feel like this is a special privilege that should be abolished. To be truly fair, the appointment of the Justices should either be completely random within a pool of highly qualified individuals (but without paying attention to locale) or it should actually be consistent with some sort of demographic reality (and if it were consistent, then the ratio of Quebec's ~8 million and Ontario's ~12 million compared to Canada as a whole should be reflected; this wouldn't yield the incongruent result of giving both of these provinces 3 judges).
Less than 25% of the Canadian population is from Quebec; therefore its a special privilege to grant Quebec 1/3 representation on the Supreme Court. It is unfair that someone born in Quebec should automatically enjoy a higher probability of becoming a Supreme Justice than someone born in another part of Canada.
We must do away with this.
What do you think? Is it fair that 3 of the 9 Supreme Judges are always from Quebec? Or is it a special privilege?
I feel like this is a special privilege that should be abolished. To be truly fair, the appointment of the Justices should either be completely random within a pool of highly qualified individuals (but without paying attention to locale) or it should actually be consistent with some sort of demographic reality (and if it were consistent, then the ratio of Quebec's ~8 million and Ontario's ~12 million compared to Canada as a whole should be reflected; this wouldn't yield the incongruent result of giving both of these provinces 3 judges).
Less than 25% of the Canadian population is from Quebec; therefore its a special privilege to grant Quebec 1/3 representation on the Supreme Court. It is unfair that someone born in Quebec should automatically enjoy a higher probability of becoming a Supreme Justice than someone born in another part of Canada.
We must do away with this.
What do you think? Is it fair that 3 of the 9 Supreme Judges are always from Quebec? Or is it a special privilege?