Just as Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose didn’t mention his name in the interviews she did, nor does her private member’s bill, C-337, the short title of which is the Judicial Accountability through Sexual Assault Law Training Act. But rest assured, the Robin Camp fix is what this purports to be, except it isn’t. (Provincial court judges may and do attend, but far fewer of them.) The seminar includes a section on sexual assault (including rape myths and stereotypes, fact-finding and victim-impact statements at sentencing), and the CJC, executive director Norman Sabourin says, is considering making it mandatory. But the real scandal is that lawyers who want to be judges don’t have to have any training or experience in the criminal law.

Source: National Post February 24, 2017 01:30 UTC