We called it first! Before anyone took notice of the problems at Government House (a.k.a. Rideau Hall), The Dorchester Review's intrepid correspondents Onoto Watanna and Tisab Ting got the scoop! In fact, we initially spiked their story, which was submitted to us in 2017, for a year to give Her Excellency a grace period for improvement. Now the chickens as it were have come home to roost.
Our politicians have given judges much power on the assumption that there was something called the law; that law would be supreme. Not judges. But in Backhouse’s biography and L’Heureux-Dubé’s judgments there is no concept of law.