The Supreme Court of Canada is recognized nationally and internationally for its excellence. To continue to improve upon this tradition, in 2016 the government introduced an open and transparent process to appoint a justice of the highest calibre who would be functionally bilingual and representative of the diversity of our great country. It is this process that led to the appointment of Justice Mary T. Moreau to the Supreme Court of Canada on November 6, 2023.
In keeping with the openness and transparency of the new process, the Independent Advisory Board for Supreme Court of Canada Judicial Appointments was required to submit its report on the selection process to the Government of Canada within a month of the appointment of Justice Moreau.
On November 29, 2023, the Chair of the Advisory Board, the Honourable H. Wade MacLauchlan, provided the Government with its Report on the 2023 Process.
The report includes, among other things:
- a detailed description of the meetings, review process and recommendation process of the Advisory Board;
- a summary of consultations and outreach activities by the Advisory Board;
- statistics about the demographics of applicants; and
- the Advisory Board's recommendations on improvements to the appointment process and the work of the Advisory Board.
The report can be found on the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs' website.
