Government quietly issued a statement before the Canada Day long weekend with Attorney General Doug Downey announcing he was reviving the designation
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday he did not see or approve names of lawyers his attorney general has designated King’s Counsel, an honorary title done away with decades ago due to patronage concerns.
Ford spoke about the matter during a news conference at the premiers’ meeting in Winnipeg on Tuesday.“I think we have to have a rigorous application process, which we will be doing moving forward. But be very frank, I have so many other more important issues than putting K.C. behind a bunch of lawyers’ names.”A spokesperson for Downey said the attorney general had heard from “many individuals and stakeholders in the Ontario legal community” who wanted to bring back the designation.
Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney, a former attorney general, received the designation but was called to the bar just days earlier. A spokesperson for the Law Society of Ontario said Mulroney was called to the bar administratively, meaning she did not attend a ceremony, on June 27.NDP Leader Marit Stiles said the list of K.C. designations raises many questions and “erodes whatever integrity this government has left.
One of those past Tory governments gave the designation to Peterson, who said he hadn’t been to a courtroom since his law student days.
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