Discussion · Government Orders
Doug Eyolfson Liberal
“I agree that cases like this should only be handled in regular civilian courts. An expert former Supreme Court judge recommended this after talking to hundreds of victims and witnesses. Other members should stop dismissing her work.”
“Mr. Speaker, I agree completely with the hon. member that this was Justice Arbour’s core recommendation. I am rather disheartened to hear a pattern of members’ trying to diminish the results of Justice Arbour by saying, “by this one justice”. It is part of a greater and very disturbing trend of demeaning and diminishing the results of experts and of using “expert” as a pejorative. Justice Arbour was a former Supreme Court justice who talked to hundreds of witnesses, hundreds of victims, and determined that the best course of action would be for these cases to be tried solely by civilian courts.”
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Mr. Speaker, I agree completely with the hon. member that this was Justice Arbour’s core recommendation. I am rather disheartened to hear a pattern of members’ trying to diminish the results of Justice Arbour by saying, “by this one justice”. It is part of a greater and very disturbing trend of demeaning and diminishing the results of experts and of using “expert” as a pejorative. Justice Arbour was a former Supreme Court justice who talked to hundreds of witnesses, hundreds of victims, and determined that the best course of action would be for these cases to be tried solely by civilian courts.