Thanks for that answer.
You've said that you are appointing a record number of judges. Fair enough—I don't argue with that—but the chief justice of Canada, Richard Wagner, talked about the government's inertia regarding vacancies and the lack of satisfactory explanations for these delays.
This is what he says: “The slowness of appointments is all the more difficult to understand since most judicial vacancies are predictable.”
Now, you've said that you're appointing more judges than the Conservatives ever did, but of course, sir, the circumstances are quite different than they were a decade ago, when the Conservatives were the governing party. You have the reality of a demographic of a large number of aging baby boomers, so it is your job to fill those vacancies. It is your job to stand up to the challenge of the day. My question is whether your government is up to those challenges.