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   From: ConsRCons@govt.cda   
      
   Looks like Harper's most recent appointee to the Supreme Court is a bit   
   of a fibber.  As well as not qualified for the judgeship.   
   Par for Harper and his talents in appointments - whether to the House,   
   to the Senate OR to the Supreme Court.   
      
   Maybe Harper can say he 'didn't know about this appointment' and that it   
   was 'government bureaucrats' who made the choice?   
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   REUTERS -  Published Tuesday, Oct. 08, 2013   
      
      
   Supreme Court justice’s appointment challenged in court   
      
      
   {Supreme Court of Canada nominee Marc Nadon, left, arrives to testify   
   before an all-party committee to review his nomination with Justice   
   Minister Peter MacKay in Ottawa on Oct. 2, 2013.}   
      
      
   Less than a week on the job and already newly appointed Supreme Court   
   Justice Marc Nadon has courted his share of controversy.   
      
   The first kerfuffle came after he told a parliamentary committee the   
   NHL’s Detroit Red Wings drafted him as a youngster.   
      
   He later clarified that the team never actually drafted him and that he   
   was using the term in a much looser sense.   
      
   Now a Toronto lawyer is going to court to challenge Nadon’s appointment.   
      
   Rocco Galati argues that Nadon – formerly a Federal Court of Appeal   
   judge – does not qualify to fill one of three slots reserved for judges   
   from Quebec on the Supreme Court’s bench.   
      
   Galati says only judges from Quebec’s appeals or superior courts, or   
   lawyers who have belonged to the province’s bar for at least 10 years,   
   can be appointed to the Supreme Court.   
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   But former Supreme Court Justice Ian Binnie wrote a legal opinion for   
   the federal government in support of Nadon’s appointment.   
      
   Galati is asking the court to compel the government to turn over   
   Binnie’s legal opinion and any other advice it sought.   
      
   He is also seeking an interim order to stay Nadon’s appointment.   
      
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