{"id":1117,"date":"2012-11-12T12:50:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T17:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:18","slug":"former-supreme-court-justice-tackles-controversial-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2012\/former-supreme-court-justice-tackles-controversial-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Supreme Court justice tackles controversial issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Former Supreme Court justice tackles controversial issues\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>A&nbsp;former&nbsp;puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada spoke to students in&nbsp;POLM 5001 (Institutions&nbsp;and Governance I).&nbsp; Michel Bastarache, who served on the Supreme Court from 1997 until 2008,&nbsp;suggested several reforms that would make the appointment of judges a&nbsp;more open and less political process and that would lead to a more diverse judiciary. He weighed in on debates over whether&nbsp;the Supreme Court has become too powerful in the Charter era and whether judges should be bilingual.&nbsp; Mr. Bastarache is currently with the Ottawa law firm Heenan Blaikie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A&nbsp;former&nbsp;puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada spoke to students in&nbsp;POLM 5001 (Institutions&nbsp;and Governance I).&nbsp; Michel Bastarache, who served on the Supreme Court from 1997 until 2008,&nbsp;suggested several reforms that would make the appointment of judges a&nbsp;more open and less political process and that would lead to a more diverse judiciary. He weighed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}