The Globe and Mail says the Liberal government has confirmed it will overhaul the way Canada picks Supreme Court justices. It will, says the paper, open up a process that has been criticized as partisan and unaccountable. Former prime minister Kim Campbell is said to be about to become the chair a new seven-member advisory board that will be tasked with recommending candidates to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Thomas Cromwell. Whether this process will address the most common complaint about the court is another matter. Typically, Canadians seem to care less about “secrecy” in the selection of judges than the court’s 21st Century appearance as a kind of parallel government to the elected one.
