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   No kidding?  ANOTHER ruling didn't go their way?   
      
   Good move, Harper - slamming our highest court.  Did you forget we're   
   gearing up  for the next federal election - and your numbers are pretty   
   bleak ?   
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   thestar.com - Tuesday, March 25, 2014   
      
      
   Conservatives defend Justice Marc Nadon, slam Supreme Court ruling   
      
   Justice Minister Peter MacKay says Ottawa is proceeding with “a process   
   to name a new member” of the top court. Meanwhile, documents reveal the   
   government waited a month to consult Quebec legal authorities on filling   
   vacant seat.   
      
   [. . .]   
   Liberal MP Irwin Cotler, who received separate answers to other   
   questions about the Nadon appointment, said in an interview Thursday it   
   is time to “revisit” the process.   
      
   But the Conservative government is still stinging from the Supreme Court   
   of Canada’s rejection of its decision in October to name Federal Court   
   of Appeal Justice Marc Nadon to the top bench.   
      
   On Monday, it defended Nadon and took a swipe at the high court for the   
   timing of its decision.   
      
   Justice Minister Peter MacKay dismissed as “nonsense” the criticism by   
   Liberal MP Stéphane Dion that the government had left Quebec   
   under-represented at the Supreme Court and antagonized the province in   
   trying to make “unilateral” changes to its composition.   
      
   MacKay then took direct aim at the judges’ timing: “It wasn’t this   
   government that decided to table this decision in the middle of the   
   Quebec election,” MacKay replied.   
      
   MacKay said, as the Prime Minister’s Office did Friday, that the   
   government was “genuinely surprised” by the ruling and repeated that it   
   is reviewing its “options.”   
      
   Almost as an afterthought, near the end of question period, MacKay   
   offered in French that “it is our intention to proceed with a process to   
   name a new member of the Supreme Court … and we have a lot of people   
   qualified for this position.”   
      
   But MacKay did not clarify that answer in English when he left the Commons.   
      
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