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Podcast: The Rodgers Brief
Episode: NS Police Review, Plea in School Stabbing, Jr Hockey Anti-Trust Suit, Elvers, PM Trudeau v CJ Wagner
Description: Lots to cover this week after no show last weekend.
The big, but underreported, story is the Federal Government appealing a decision of the Federal Court on the country-wide shortage of judges. The Chief Justice wrote to the Prime Minister about the issue, which generated a declaration from the Federal Court that the government should speed up the appointment process. Now, the government is saying that the letter from the Chief Justice is heresay, and not evidence that should have been relied upon. Quite a thing to say about the CJ.
I also cover the lack of a Charter...