The resignation of Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown leaves a big hole in the country’s top court, according to many.
Joanna Baron, a lawyer and the executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, said his loss is “monumental.”
“Justice Brown was a judge of extraordinary rigour and clarity, who consistently hewed to the demands of the rule of law,” she told The Epoch Times.
She said that in his eight years with the Supreme Court of Canada (SCOC), Brown made some significant decisions, such as his dissenting opinion on the federal carbon tax, which was challenged by Ontario, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. In a 6–3 decision, the SCOC ruled in favour of the tax, with Brown being one of the dissenters….