Who Likes White People - Diversity in the Judiciary

Some of us believe in having judges play a larger role in selecting judges and that Harper's movement away from that is wrong. This is what happens when judges self-appoint:


The Supreme Court of Canada - 2006, Aren't we a multicultural country?


Here's a list of all the CJC members. Count out the women and minorities yourself:

Canadian Judicial Council Names -
The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., C.J.C. (Chairperson)
The Honourable John D. Richard, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal
The Honourable Allan F. Lutfy, Chief Justice of the Federal Court
The Honourable Donald G. H. Bowman, Chief Justice of the Tax Court of Canada
The Honourable Gerald J. Rip, Associate Chief Justice of the Tax Court of Canada
The Honourable Edmond P. Blanchard, Chief Justice of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada
The Honourable R. Roy McMurtry, Chief Justice of Ontario
The Honourable Heather J. Smith, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Justice (of Ontario)
The Honourable Dennis O'Connor, Associate Chief Justice of Ontario
The Honourable J. Douglas Cunningham, Associate Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Justice (of Ontario)
The Honourable J.J. Michel Robert, Chief Justice of Québec
The Honourable François Rolland, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Québec
The Honourable Robert Pidgeon, Senior Associate Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Québec
The Honourable André Wery, Associate Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Québec
The Honourable J. Michael MacDonald, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia
The Honourable Joseph P. Kennedy, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
The Honourable Deborah K. Smith, Associate Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
The Honourable Robert F. Ferguson, Associate Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Family Division
The Honourable Ernest Drapeau, Chief Justice of New Brunswick
The Honourable David D. Smith, Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick
The Honourable J. Edward Richard, Senior Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories
The Honourable Richard J. Scott, Chief Justice of Manitoba
The Honourable Marc M. Monnin, Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba
The Honourable Jeffrey J. Oliphant, Associate Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba
The Honourable Gerald Mercier, Associate Chief Justice, Family Division, of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba
The Honourable Lance Finch, Chief Justice of British Columbia
The Honourable Donald I. Brenner, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia
The Honourable Patrick D. Dohm, Associate Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
The Honourable Gerard E. Mitchell, Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island
The Honourable Jacqueline R. Matheson, Chief Justice of the Trial Division, Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island
The Honourable John Klebuc, Chief Justice of Saskatchewan
The Honourable Robert D. Laing, Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench for Saskatchewan
The Honourable Ronald Veale, Senior Judge of the Supreme Court of the Yukon Territory
The Honourable Catherine A. Fraser, Chief Justice of Alberta
The Honourable Allan H.J. Wachowich, Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta
The Honourable Neil Wittmann, Associate Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta
The Honourable, Clyde K. Wells, Chief Justice of Newfoundland and Labrador
The Honourable J. Derek Green, Chief Justice of the Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador
The Honourable Beverley Browne, Senior Judge of the Nunavut Court of Justice


Wow - I don't think there is one non-white person name there. For a country of immigrants that sure is a lot of white people!

You can go through the Provincial Courts of Justices and find the same issue repeatedly.

Here's some stats from the CJC itself:
Females - 26%
Minorities - this is from the Canadian Judicial Council and I love it... "To the best of our knowledge, no such information exists."

Sorry isn't this the year 2007? Why is our judiciary living in 1967? Because oligarichal structures have a tendency to promote the 'like begats like' phenomonen and because our system has and is broken. Harper's changes change nothing... the system is broken, politicized, not representative, and so on and so forth.

Also we incorporated French Civil Law into our constitution, why didn't we include Aboriginal Traditional Law - where are the first nations on the supremely white court and in the constitution of Canada?