Justice Moreau, who has been a judge on Alberta’s top trial court for the past 29 years, faced an ad hoc committee of parliamentarians as part of her appointment process
Supreme Court of Canada nominee Mary Moreau appears before the House Justice and Human rights committee and the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs committee, in Ottawa, on Nov. 2.Conservative Senator Denise Batters challenged Supreme Court nominee Mary Moreau on her decision to let Omar Khadr live in the community with no restrictions during a public hearing on Thursday in Parliament.
“When I speak of a creative sentence, I cannot comment on my decision in Khadr,” Justice Moreau said. But then she added that her ruling was creative in the sense the conditions had been very strict, replicating the conditions in a sentence of conditional imprisonment, or house arrest. In other words, while on bail, he had in effect served his full sentence.
Mr. Housefather then asked what Justice Moreau, the court’s first francophone nominee from the West, with a long history of representing clients in French-language rights cases when she was a practising lawyer, knows about the English-speaking minority in Quebec.
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