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OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) –– An ongoing investigation into potential favoritism in Canadian judicial appointments has shown that multiple superior court justices appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were not only party donors, but also attended high-fee Liberal Party fundraisers only shortly before their bench appointments.
The new revelations come according to a National Post investigation into judge appointments, which was analyzed by the Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) and came from data obtained from the federal government’s Orders in Council database.
The names as well as orders from the Orders in Council database were cross-referenced with an Elections Canada list of registered party donors from 2019 to the present day.
The data shows that three federal judges, Robert Armstrong, Michel Bourque, and Kevin Feth, appointed to Alberta’s Superior Trial Court, also have names that are close to those on the Liberal’s fundraising registry.
The National Post report noted that Armstrong and Borque attended many Liberal Party fundraiser events from October 2017 to September 2021. Armstrong became a judge in February 2021 with Borque getting an appointment in December 2021.
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