Mr. Speaker, that is more of the same.
The process is not independent and it never will be as long as the Prime Minister's Office and Cabinet keep interfering in it. Members will recall that, in 2019, this supposedly independent process led to five of the six judges appointed in New Brunswick having ties to the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. Three of them were personal donors, and the other two were the wife of his brother-in-law and a neighbour. There is a word for that and it is called patronage, systemic patronage.
Will the Prime Minister finally make the process for appointing judges impartial, or will he continue to defend patronage?