Time for outside appointment?

I have always wondered if people read my letters to the editor. I see that Brian Francis has. The issue of appointing a P.E.I. Supreme Court based on merit, not as a political patronage appointment, is important to all Islanders, including the Mi’kmaq.

The reason I wrote to oppose the continued political patronage appointments to P.E.I. Supreme Court is because I stood in front of former P.E.I. Supreme Court justice Wayne Cheverie and accused the Province of P.E.I. and P.E.I. Supreme Court of collusion. Lawyers aren’t raising the issue of parents smoking and the province isn’t seeking judgments against parents who smoke while the P.E.I. Supreme Court remains silent on the issue.

The P.E.I. Supreme Court hasn’t spoken out on the issue of smoking especially since children don’t have an advocate or lawyer to represent them and teens’ smoking is higher than the national average.

I want the Trudeau government to appoint a lawyer who has demonstrated his or her knowledge of the Charter even it means appointing a lawyer from another province to become a P.E.I. Supreme Court justice.

I know the British told the colonies to negotiate treaties with the Aboriginal peoples and courts across Canada have done horrendous injustices to aboriginal peoples.

I think both Aboriginal peoples and children would be best served by non-Liberal or non-Conservatives justices from P.E.I. People have the right to life, liberty and security. It’s time for change in the P.E.I. Supreme Court

John W. A. Curtis, Summerside