Supreme Bilingualism
3,553 views · Published 4 June 2010 · 37:09 · Indexed 31 October 2026
Channel: TVO Today · 2010 · Education
An NDP private member's bill proposes that all future Supreme Court justices be bilingual. Is a fluently bilingual Supreme Court of Canada an ideal worth pursuing? GUESTS: Sébastien Grammond is the Dean and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. Karen Selick is the Litigation Director for the Canadian Constitution Foundation. She has also written for the National Post, The Globe and Mail, The Ottawa Citizen, and The Vancouver Sun. For more information see karenselick.com. Claudette Tardif is the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. She has long been recognized as one of Canada's foremost advocates and defenders of minority linguistic and cultural rights and for her considerable contribution to both secondary and post-secondary education. For more information see her bio. Dennis Baker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph.
