If the grievance board was handling it so well, why would Mr. Hamel come before us and say he needs this amendment? It's obviously just an administrative housekeeping type of amendment to cope with those, hopefully, very rare cases in which a set of circumstances is such that the hearing is not done before the completion of somebody's term. The rationale that the government puts forward is nonsense. It's been asked for by the grievance board, and this is a great opportunity to fill in a legislative gap that is very similar to what you find in civilian situations. All courts, even if they have mandatory retirement ages, have the ability to let a supernumerary sit past the age of retirement, in the event that a case has not been completed and to participate in the adjudication and in the writing of the reasons. So it makes perfectly good sense to me.
On February 25th, 2013. See this statement in context.