Bill 14 - Court of Queens Bench Amendment Act, 2008
October 21, 2008 - Third Reading
Ms Blakeman: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Well, I didn’t get to speak to this bill in second or at committee, but the critic in our caucus, the Member for Calgary-Buffalo, has asked us to support the bill. He clearly agrees with the Minister of Justice. It is allowing for the masters in chambers, an important part of our system, to have greater choice in their careers. It does give us more flexibility in how to deal with incapacity, however that comes to us, an illness or for whatever reason that a master is not able to perform their duties. Whether they’ve retired or they have resigned or they’re ill at the time, we need that flexibility. It is offering educational benefits for those who are serving the administration of justice. It looks like everybody had a great time debating this. I’m not going to prolong the debate. I just wish I’d gotten in on it earlier.
But we are happy in the Liberal caucus to support third reading of Bill 14, Court of Queen’s Bench Amendment Act, 2008. Although I’m always a little interested in why there is such criticism of the bench from a number of individuals on the government side, including one today that was a fairly forceful criticism of judges, yet we have bills like this. So I guess we have to look to the good common sense of the Minister of Justice and hope she’s going to prevail here. Thank you very much.
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