We get 1 hour each side at the Supreme Court in 🇨🇦.

We often get longer at our Courts of Appeal.

Holding a party responsible for the failures of its lawyer was harsh, but the only tool to enforce compliance.

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There is a larger resources (fed + prov) problem to fix, including court staffing, judicial resources (clerks?), rules of court, unnecessary procedures, technological frictions and sometimes even substantive law.

We need a holistic approach.

We’ll have to get you to an SCC argument one day…

Today, it seems the line is playing exactly as the Nazi-sympathizing Emcee would have intended.

On more than one occasion in the past two weeks — since the election — a small number of audience members have squealed with laughter at “She wouldn’t look Jewish at all.” In the late 1960s, we softened the line because the truth was too hard to hear.