Simply put, the test that's prescribed--the existence or non-existence of rational, evidence-based, legitimate reasons--doesn't exist, in the submission of the Canadian Bar Association. Again, we end up with the conclusion, the feeling, that a reasonable person, leaving aside the detail of the salary, would conclude that the government response was that judges are paid enough already, or will be paid enough, without responding to the detail, at least insofar as the attempt is to peg the rationale for that upon economic conditions of the government.
On October 25th, 2006. See this statement in context.