Mr. Speaker, I want to acknowledge the member for West Nova with whom I have had the privilege of working and serving on the justice committee.
I found it a little ironic that the member for West Nova referred to Chief Justice McLaughlin, because under this deeply flawed appointment process, Chief Justice McLaughlin would have been disqualified at the time she was appointed by former Prime Minister Mulroney.
I want to ask the member how he squares the appointment process with the pronouncement in the Nadon decision, wherein the court said that Parliament—and in this case today, it is the executive branch—was seeking to unilaterally overturn a convention going to the composition of the courts. The Supreme Court in Nadon said the federal government does not have jurisdiction to do that. How does he square the process with the Nadon decision?