In terms of judicial conduct generally, the executive director has authority to initiate a review about a judge. Any time information comes to my attention, I can do that. More importantly, judges have ethical obligations to signal or to flag where they see ethical shortcomings in regard to other judges. Contrary to other countries, we don't have a type of inspection service in Canada where somebody goes into judges' offices and says, “Where were you last month? What courses did you attend? Did you go to any public event and get inebriated?” We don't do that kind of inspection that goes on in other countries, but when there are ethical shortcomings they usually get flagged.
As for judicial education specifically, the policy of the CJC is very clear: 10 to 15 days a year. We know that new judges, newly appointed people, all attend. If anybody thinks there's a problem there, it's a red herring.