MidlandToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via our website. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to a letter regarding judicial appointments by Premier Doug Ford, published Feb. 29.
Two points:
1. Hon. Lewis, a friend and a most capable and respected Minister of Justice, did not profess to appoint acolytes as judges. His appointments were almost universally regarded as appointments of competence and integrity.
2. The Appointment Recommendation Committee in Ontario was recognized by the legal community of Ontario, Canada and elsewhere in the Rule of Law world as exemplary. That system as it was, made excellent recommendations, from the pool of which excellent judges have been appointed.
What possible merit can there be in such a blunt partisan change as the Premier says he is making?
Rod Ferguson KC LSM Midland
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