{"id":134887,"date":"2017-11-29T02:34:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T07:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=134887"},"modified":"2017-11-29T02:34:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T07:34:38","slug":"pm-trudeau-to-name-new-supreme-court-judge-to-replace-retiring-mclachlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/29\/pm-trudeau-to-name-new-supreme-court-judge-to-replace-retiring-mclachlin\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Trudeau to name new Supreme Court judge to replace retiring McLachlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_133082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133082\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/justin-trudeau-wax-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133082\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/justin-trudeau-wax-1.jpg\" alt=\"Montreal's Grevin wax museum unveiled a statue of Trudeau on Tuesday, sculpted by Paris-based artist Eric Saint Chaffray. (Photo: Gr\u00e9vin Montr\u00e9al\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/justin-trudeau-wax-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/justin-trudeau-wax-1-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/justin-trudeau-wax-1-768x601.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-133082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GrevinMontreal\/photos\/a.228144787340261.1073741832.120310678123673\/963392503815482\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">(Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GrevinMontreal\">Gr\u00e9vin Montr\u00e9al\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u00a0is poised to appoint a new judge to the Supreme Court of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The new addition is expected to be named Wednesday morning, ensuring that the nine-member bench remains at full strength after Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin retires on Dec. 15.<\/p>\n<p>Insiders say the announcement will not include naming a new chief justice.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau\u00a0has been under pressure to appoint the first Indigenous judge to the country&#8217;s top court.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould wouldn&#8217;t say Tuesday whether that will occur but she noted that the government sought applications from judges in western and northern Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Liberal government brought in a new Supreme Court appointment process to encourage more openness, transparency and diversity, which also requires high court justices to be functionally bilingual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u00a0is poised to appoint a new judge to the Supreme Court of Canada. The new &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":133082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[36014,11653,3070,10172],"class_list":["post-134887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-beverly-mclachlin","tag-jody-wilson-raybould","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-supreme-court-of-canada","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}