Canada’s Decision 2031
Like America, Canada has nine Judges on our Supreme court.
We also hold elections for our federal office every 4 years.
Assuming there are no issues with a prime minister, and barring some constitutional crisis forcing an early election call or dissolution of parliament.
2031 should serve to be one of the most decisive elections for the next 40 years. Allow me to elaborate.
Andromache Karakatsanis will be forced to retire on October 3, 2030
Sheilah Martin will be forced to retire on May 31, 2031
Richard Wagner will be forced to retire on April 2, 2032
Suzanne Côté will be forced to retire on September 21, 2033
Nicholas Kasirer will be forced to retire on February 20, 2035
That means the party elected in Oct 2030 and invited to form government in 2031 could potentially choose 3–5 justices of the supreme court.
The diversity of the Canadian courts is a hot-topic issue, it’s been reported that only 2 of the currently sitting federal court judges identify as BIPOC.
Last week 36 law organizations sent a letter to our Justice Minister requesting all vacancies be filled with more diverse judges.
The answer to this problem however, doesn’t lie with racism, it lies with colonialism.
Canadian’s may never see a Canadian head of state in their lifetime.
We are still a constitutional monarchy.
An article this week from The Star’s columnist Bob Hepburn said
In the 21st century, it is unthinkable Canada, a multicultural nation that champions diversity, is still beholden to a queen or king living in England. Add to that the fact that under the monarchy system no Canadian will ever be our next head of state, nor will any Catholic, Jew, Muslim or anyone from countless other ethnic and religious backgrounds.
With a Governor General that is acting with impunity from oversight, and with a Prime Minister guilty of violating the ethics act, caught up in another scandal with WE, all while we still have provincial disputes that aren’t being heard at the federal level.
The onslaught of social and governmental issues begs for us to ask, would an intervention of the executive branch be so bad?
This isn’t the first time Canada’s had a tormentous PM-GG relationship, the King-Byng issue is a famous Canadian example of a GG refusing the request of a PM.
Upon returning to power, King’s government sought at an imperial conference to redefine the role of the governor general as a personal representative of the sovereign in his Canadian council and not of the British government (the king in his British council). The change was agreed to at the Imperial Conference of 1926 and came to be official as a result of the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and Statute of Westminster 1931.
We appear to be in the midst of a constitutional crisis in this country, where if our branches of government are compromised, acting unethically and without the best interest of Canadian’s. We as Canadian’s are looking around us, at Republics that have these systems of government with an executive branch independent of legislation.
