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Beverley McLachlin, chief justice, deserves apology from PM, international jurists say
Beverley McLachlin, chief justice, deserves apology from PM, international jurists sayCBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/beverley-mclachlin-chief-justice-deserves-apology-from-pm-international-jurists-say-1.2718342
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major international legal organization says Prime Minister Stephen Harper owes Canada’s Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin an apology.
An unprecedented spat broke out between the Prime Minister’s Office and the country’s top court in May after the Prime Minister's Office accused McLachlin of acting “inappropriately,” during the failed nomination of Justice Marc Nadon to the Supreme Court.
Now, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) says the PMO and Minister of Justice Peter MacKay were “unfairly conflating the issue.”
At the time, nameless government sources were quoted in published reports accusing McLachlin of having “lobbied” the government against Nadon’s appointment in the summer of 2013.
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