Tue Aug 15, 2023 – 4:36 pm EDTTue Aug 15, 2023 – 4:37 pm EDT
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) –– Members of Parliament from Canada’s Conservative Party have sounded the alarm over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s apparent appointment of judges who are mostly Liberal Party donors, saying his slow pace of filling vacant positions is being done so that he can put in place new justices who are his “Liberal insider friends.”
According to a recent eight-month in-depth analysis conducted by the National Post along with the Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF), released on August 9, data shows that the Trudeau Liberals almost exclusively appoint judges who are party donors.
The data reveals that of the 1,308 judicial and tribunal appointments made by the Trudeau Liberals since again coming to power in 2016, a whopping 76.3 percent of its appointees had given money to the Liberal Party of Canada.
By contrast, only 22.9 percent of appointees were donors to the Conservative Party of Canada, and only 17.9 percent gave to the New Democratic Party. Of note is that some judges did donate to more than one political party, however, this number was low.
Since 2016, the data shows that
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