The government of Canada’s intent to achieve a gender-balanced Supreme Court of Canada that also reflects the diversity of members of Canadian society, has created problems.
All that has happened is that one axis of “diversity” has been displaced by another; in place of region, seats on the court will now be allotted by sex and race. In the rock-paper-scissors game of identity politics, Atlantic Canadians lost out; that is all. “If it’s possible,” the Globe and Mail’s Sean Fine quoted a Liberal insider on the search for Cromwell’s replacement, “they’re going to give it to a female, bilingual, visible minority.”
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