Mr. Speaker, the Attorney General is suggesting that the Chief Justice brought this whole he-said-she-said affair upon herself, that she had acted inappropriately by making a phone call about a Supreme Court vacancy in July of 2013.
The government had months of notice. If the minister and the government really felt so strongly about that phone call, why did they not simply request that the Chief Justice recuse herself from the Nadon case and avoid the smear campaign that he and the Prime Minister are now on?